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…
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has recently come under fire for hiring members of the Chinese Communist Party. Carnegie takes in millions from the U.S. government as well as…
In November, Alaskans will go to the polls to decide whether they want to hold a state constitutional convention to decide important issues, such as reapportioning the Permanent Fund dividend, which has…
Since the Progressive Era, Big Philanthropy’s legitimacy to pursue its social and policy agendas has largely been based on its oft-invoked, well-credentialed, and data-driven expertise. Many business-oriented, conservative grantmakers have…
On the Bill Meyer Show, Hayden Ludwig discusses ActBlue, the biggest “black money” fundraising arms of the Left. In 2020, ActBlue pulled in $407 million and distributed it to hundreds…
We are pleased to announce that the January 2022 issue of Capital Research is now available online. Here’s a peek at what’s inside: Robert Stilson looks at the Democracy Alliance and…