Glenn Beck likes to give history lessons. His desk is strewn with books. “Read history!” he’ll holler into the camera. He’s even got a blackboard and chalk. I once had a high-school history teacher ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On a Sunday dedicated to honoring motherhood, May 11, 2010, the Denver Post chose to celebrate everything glaringly responsible for preventing or terminating ...

When Fannie Lou Hamer tried to organize black voters in her home state of Mississippi, she was savagely beaten. As she campaigned for civil rights, Hamer became one of the first to acknowledge another ...

Like me, you’ve probably noticed that people tend to think of math as morally neutral. There’s the world of ethics, values, faith, meaning and philosophy. Then there’s the world of math and science.

In 1883 a British biologist named Francis Galton combined the roots of the Greek words for "good" and "origin" to create the term "eugenics" for an applied science based on genetics and breeding. The ...

Last month, Caltech announced that the names of six men with historical ties to the university would be removed from all “campus buildings, assets, and honors.” This unnaming came as the institution ...

It is often a misfortune for any good movement to become a fad. When this happens it is pretty sure to enlist the support of that object of Mr. Roosevelt's wholesome dread, the 'fool reformer.' And ...

This episode follows Otmar von Verschuer and the role eugenics played in shaping Nazi era “science.” It breaks down how ...

The eugenics movement of the early 1900s ultimately went horribly wrong despite its noble aims. What can we learn from this movement's outcomes in order to avoid the repetition of these mistakes?

I was both horrified and unsurprised to discover that Toby Young (who briefly, yet for too long, held influential office on the board of the Office for Students) wasn’t kidding when he said he ...

The New York Times has taken the mainstream media’s sanewashing of Donald Trump to the next level, this time with an innocuous-sounding headline: “Trump’s Remarks on Migrants Illustrate His Obsession ...

As Jewish Hungarians, Jeno and Rosalie Rasko were murdered in the name of "racial hygiene" during the World War II. Today, their grandson, John Rasko AO, is a world-leading scientist with a personal ...