"Social Darwinism, a popular topic in the 19th and early 20th centuries,” reported the Associated Press on April 5, “is making its way into modern American politics.” The news peg for the ...

Conservative and libertarian arguments about social spending are rooted in the discredited Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner. Social Darwinism was the intellectual vogue of ...

Herbert Spencer, the great libertarian philosopher and social theorist, was born on this day in Derby, England in 1820. A classical liberal in the tradition of John Locke and Adam Smith, Spencer ...

In fact, Spencer was a self-identified political liberal of the old-school variety. Thus, the canard that he was the promulgator of a ruthless social Darwinism is more caricature than reality.

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 ...

Herbert Spencer was born on April 27, 1820 in Derby, England, the son of William George Spencer, a religious dissenter with a love of learning and an anti-authoritarian streak.

I was disappointed to learn that Mary Midgley attributes much of Christian fundamentalists’ fear and hatred of evolution to Herbert Spencer’s social Darwinism, which he promulgated in the US ...

Barry Werth, . . Random, $27 (362pp) ISBN 978-1-4000-6778-7 In this fascinating study, Werth ( The Scarlet Professor ) shows how the idea of social Darwinism, as codified by Herbert Spencer, took ...

Books Received Published: 06 April 1935 Herbert Spencer's Sociology: a Study in the History of Social Theory, to which is appended a Bibliography of Spencer and his Work Nature 135, 527 (1935 ...