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 all have value and deserve to be loved for who we are, but society doesn’t always recognize that. There are plenty of different bigotries across history, a major one being social Darwinism, also ...

Full disclosure: I’m writing this column from the city of Merida on the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico, a country where I spend a fair amount of time each year — a country, and a people, close to my ...

In his spirited and comprehensive 2005 analysis “Darwinism and Its Discontents,” Michael Ruse argues that “from the beginning, right down to the present, many people have regarded evolution as a kind ...

(AP) Social Darwinism, a popular topic in the 19th and early 20th centuries, is making its way into modern American politics. President Barack Obama invoked the theory this week to criticize his ...