Category: Culture
In a Historic Moment, Many Religious Leaders Fail the Test of COVID-19
Both David French and Robert Jeffress seem certain that their fellow believers’ religious objections can’t be sincere.
Listen: Q&A with Weikart on Darwinian Racism
What about the objection that Darwinism, properly understood, doesn’t support scientific racism (much less Nazi racism)?
Racism Serves Darwinism, Darwinism Serves Racism
Racism was not just an incidental part of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Rather Darwin considered racial inequality crucial evidence for his theory.
Darwin’s Reticence: How on Earth Did the Origin of Species Ever Get Published?
Even Darwin would be aghast at what the world has made of a mere abstract that he was almost pathologically ambivalent about ever publishing.
Weikart: Hitler’s “Might Is Right” Ethic Drawn from Darwinism
Historian Richard Weikart moves into a discussion of neo-Nazis, contemporary white nationalists, and the alt-right.