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No one thinks they’re the bad guy. No one wakes up and says, “Today I’ll be on the wrong side of history.” So here’s the question: if nobody thinks they’re the villain… what were they thinking?On Wrong Side Of History I try to help you understand history’s bad guys the way…
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Preview: Eugenics Endnotes (opens the original)
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. Join here to become a member of Wrong Side of History Get the full End Notes at the end of each series, occasional essays and Q&As, and help support the research behind the show ______________________________________________________________ In this members only episode we’ll talk about: How Eugenics was practiced differently in different places The central anxiety that helped justify the most radical policies More about the religious aspect of the whole movement And wrestle with this mora
Eugenics, Part 2: The Promise of Human Betterment (opens the original)
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Become a member of Wrong Side of History Get the complete End Notes at the end of each series, occasional essays and Q&As, and help support the research behind the show. Join here What kind of future did the eugenicists believe they were building? Eugenics did not only promise to prevent human decline. Its supporters imagined a world without hereditary disease, a more intelligent and cooperative humanity, and eventually even world peace. In Part Two, I follow that promise from one of the movemen
Eugenics, Part 1: The Fear of Human Decline (opens the original)
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Become a member of Wrong Side of History Get the complete End Notes at the end of each series, occasional essays and Q&As, and help support the research behind the show. Join here Why did eugenics become mainstream among some of the most educated, scientifically minded and socially conscious people of the early twentieth century? Before eugenics became inseparable in public memory from Nazi Germany, forced sterilisation and racial supremacy, British eugenicists believed modern civilisation had c
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Get End Notes at the end of each series, occasional essays and Q&As, and help support the research behind the show. Join here __________________________________ What does it mean to believe something without really understanding why? John Stuart Mill called this dead dogma : a belief that may be true, but has become little more than a script. I look at why Mill thought even correct ideas become weaker when they’re never challenged and what happens when certainty replaces understanding. This is a
Queen Victoria, Imperial Motherhood and the British Antis (opens the original)
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Become a member of Wrong Side of History Get End Notes at the end of each series, occasional essays and Q&As, and help support the research behind the show. Join here _____________________ Queen Victoria called women’s rights a “mad, wicked folly.” But unlike their American counterparts, some British anti-suffragists proposed women’s councils, a ministry for women and even a separate women’s chamber of parliament organised around the belief that the sexes had different duties. To understand how
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