All Posts Tagged With: "eugenics"
Eugenics: Progressivism’s Ultimate Social Engineering
According to the received account of the Progressive Era, an enlightened government swept in and regulated markets for goods, labor, and capital, thereby protecting the hapless masses from the vicissitudes of unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism. The Progressives had faith that experts would rise above self-interest and implement wise plans to create a great society. The resulting [...]
21Sep2011 | and Art Carden | 21 comments | ContinuedThe Vanity of the Philosopher: From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics
By Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy Reviewed by Gene Callahan
1Apr2007 | Gene Callahan | 1 comment | ContinuedSeparate State and Science
I don’t reach much fiction these days, but one novel I intend to read is State of Fear, Michael Crichton’s story of how environmentalists use allegedly man-made catastrophic global warming to control the population. Anyone who has the power to cause such hysteria among the Kyoto Protocol set must be doing something right. (Bjørn Lomborg [...]
1Jun2005 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedNational Health Care: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945
Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., a physician and anthropologist, directs the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., which recently brought from Berlin the exhibition, “The Value of the Human Being: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945,” curated by Christian Pross and Götz Aly. Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, [...]
1Nov1993 | Marc S. Micozzi M.D. | 43 comments | Continued-
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