Narratives like Paul Ryan’s “maker vs. taker” narrative is resurrected Social Darwinism, where the poor are lazy and the rich are virtuous. Conservative and libertarian arguments about social spending ...

To the surprise of no one, the New York Times hailed the “thunderclap of a speech” in an editorial titled “Calling Radicalism by Its Name.” But Social Darwinism has been thick in the air of late ...

We've heard the evolutionary term, "survival of the fittest." A more descriptive popular definition would be, "those organisms best adapted to existing conditions are able to survive." There is a long ...

Charles Johnson argues that Richard Dawkins has mischaracterized Herbert Spencer: First, Spencer was not a "Social Darwinist." He was not, in fact, a Darwinist at all; he published his most famous ...

Herbert Spencer, the 19th-century British philosopher, is remembered today as the forbidding -- almost forbidden -- father of "Social Darwinism," a school of thought declaring that the fittest prosper ...

Herbert Spencer was once considered a towering figure in Western intellectual life. The ideas expounded by this “eminent Victorian” philosopher were imprinted on the minds of an entire generation of ...

Social Darwinism isn't what it used to be. President Barack Obama lambasted the Paul Ryan budget as "thinly veiled social Darwinism" in a scorching budget speech last week. The charge displayed the ...