In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. WASHINGTON — The progressive mob that disrupted Charles Murray’s appearance last week at ...

Merriam-Webster defines early 20th-century “Progressivism” as “a political philosophy and social reform movement that aims to advance the public good through government action…” Today, “progressive” ...

Introduction : you are your brother's keeper! -- "The sacrifice of a race" : Virginia's proto-eugenicists survey humanity -- "Rearing the human thoroughbred ...

In the world of pseudo-science, eugenics holds a dark position in history thanks to its being a social philosophy based on improving society via the manipulation of a population’s genetic stock. Its ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The progressive mob that disrupted Charles Murray’s appearance recently at Middlebury College was protesting a 1994 book read by few if any of the protesters. Some of them denounced ...

WASHINGTON — The progressive mob that disrupted Charles Murray's appearance last week at Middlebury College was protesting a 1994 book read by few if any of the protesters. Some of them denounced ...

WASHINGTON -- The progressive mob that disrupted Charles Murray's appearance last week at Middlebury College was protesting a 1994 book read by few if any of the protesters. Some of them denounced ...