Jennifer Rubin, blogging at the Washington Post, has this to say about President Obama's use of the term "thinly veiled social Darwinism" to describe Paul Ryan's budget: "Let's be clear about two ...

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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 ...

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“Darwinism” is not to be formally defined in this or any other ahistorical way and then traced through the past as a distinct idea or argument. What historians have to tackle instead is usage, the ...

Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, SEGUNDA EPOCA, Vol. 18, No. 3(48) (Septiembre 2003), pp. 259-272 (14 pages) The so-called evolutionary social sciences ...

The word Darwinism has become a synecdoche for all the mechanisms implied by the Malthusian concept of “survival of the fittest” — the notion that the strongest members of a system survive to ...