David Sloan Wilson, the author of Evolution for Everyone, will share how evolution can function as a general theoretical framework for public policy formulation in the same way that it works in the ...

The charge that if you defend free markets and limited government, then you’re a Social Darwinist is a hackneyed and dishonest claim of the Left. I’m not sure who first tried to identify conservative ...

Social Darwinism has become shorthand for a harsh, “eat‑or‑be‑eaten” worldview that supposedly flows straight from Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The phrase gets thrown around in fights over ...

If Barack Obama wanted to insult the political right in America, he picked an unusual way to do it. And I’m pretty sure his use of the term “social Darwinism” was a deliberate insult. While such ...

(AP) Social Darwinism, a popular topic in the 19th and early 20th centuries, is making its way into modern American politics. President Barack Obama invoked the theory this week to criticize his ...

President Barck Obama stated that the Republican deficit-reduction plan was thinly disguised Social Darwinism. FOX News jumped on this and several commentators repeatedly stated that Democrats were ...

Full disclosure: I’m writing this column from the city of Merida on the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico, a country where I spend a fair amount of time each year — a country, and a people, close to my ...