Review: Social Darwinism in American Thought by Richard Hofstadter
Aug 23, 2024
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In this episode I look at the late 19th Century Darwinian Conservatism of Herbert Spencer, William Graham Sumner, and reactions by William James and others as described in Richard Hofstadter's Social Darwinism in American Thought.
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