This piece is a belated response to “You Can’t be Anti-State & Pro-Lock-down”, which is itself a response to our “Anarchy, Lockdown and Crypto-Eugenics” (a critique in turn of “On the Anarchist ...

“The Covid19 crisis has presented a challenge to anarchists and others who believe in a fully autonomous and liberated life” – so a recent submission to Montreal Counter-information declares. These ...

Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s views of modern medical genetics have to be evaluated independently of her radical, revisionist history of eugenics (“Medical Genetics Is Not Eugenics,” The Chronicle Review, May ...

A marker in Indianapolis describes the history of a 1907 Indiana eugenics law (Radharc Images/Alamy). This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the ...

Prominent historians and scholars convened virtually on Wednesday to discuss the legacy of eugenics in New England and at Harvard in a conference hosted by Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and ...

The largest sperm bank in the UK has been accused of ‘eugenics’ after turning away donors with dyslexia in a bid to ‘minimise the risk’ of transmitting common genetic diseases or malformations to ...

Eugenics is a concept often associated with the horrors of Nazi Germany. But, as disability rights activist Adam Pearson explores in a new documentary series, the ideology had its roots in 19th ...

Daniel Okrent, author of The Guarded Gate, draws a parallel between the eugenics movement, which helped shape U.S. immigration in the early 20th... Eugenics, Anti-Immigration Laws Of The Past Still ...

At an annual conference in Virginia, Robbins Gilman, president of the Minneapolis Council of Americanization, advocated for eugenics tests as a requirement for entrance to the United States, calling ...

Nearly 100 years ago, Congress passed a restrictive law that cut the overall number of immigrants coming to the United States and put severe limits on those who were let in. Journalist Daniel Okrent ...