Many of the worst ideas of our century can be traced back to pseudoscience in the last century. Eugenics, phrenology, and innate racial disparities may be debunked, but their ghosts…
To Madison Grant, William Z. Ripley, and countless other evolutionists of the age these were the profound, unavoidable conclusions drawn from nature’s inner workings, which Charles Darwin had only begun…
According to Spiro, Grant drew three lessons from Gobineau’s race theory: first, to apply zoological concepts (e.g. dangerous crossbreeding) to Man; second, that class struggle explains all of human history;…
Eugenicists’ fear of racial intermixing made them natural allies with the feminists of the powerful birth control movement. While contraception is widespread today, few people are aware that in the…
For all its might it was clear by the mid-1920s that eugenics was losing its powerful influence in government and the scientific community. It’d taken decades to build—only to collapse…
“Love thy fellow man by murdering him” might be the commandment of the god of the abortion industry. Armed with billions of dollars from tax-exempt foundations and nonprofits, pro-abortion activists…
Few Americans have heard of Marie Carmichael Stopes, yet she might be considered the UK’s Margaret Sanger and the face of British family planning and eugenics. There are interesting parallels…
The 1950s was the era in which social engineering became the pursuit of philanthropists and cosmopolitans—literally “citizens of the world”—rather than 1930s Darwinian scientists. Now absent the imagery of Josef…
One of the Population Council’s most infamous targets was India. Independent India was socialist but not aligned with the Soviet Union. What followed was an unprecedented campaign of state-sponsored “family…
Black and Harvey were both abortion activists in the late 1960s who shared an entrepreneurial vision of preventing “unwanted pregnancy.” The pair soon devised an idea of marketing condoms through…