#1712 Eugenics Redux: A Gilded Age Ideology Brought Back for the Second Gilded Age

Air Date 5/27/2025

Slippery slope arguments persist because good ideas taken to extremes become bad ones. Eugenics exemplifies this—often starting with good intentions.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: The movement that inspired the Holocaust - Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira - TED-Ed - Air Date 3-10-22

KP 2: MAHA's Soft Eugenics - Conspirituality - Air Date 3-8-25

KP 3: It Must Be Eugenics - I Must Be BUG'N - Air Date 4-24-25

KP 4: Hayek's bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian - Politics Theory Other - Air Date 3-30-25

KP 5: Even More News: Grok's Meltdown, Donald Trump's Rampant Corruption, and Ms. Rachel w/ Mehdi Hasan - Some More News - Air Date 5-16-25

KP 6: Undercover inside a ‘scientific racism’ network - Today in Focus - Air Date 10-25-24

(00:49:40) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On the likely future of gene editing ethics

DEEPER DIVES

(01:02:09) SECTION A: HISTORICAL CONTEXT

(01:44:19) SECTION B: RFK JR. ON AUTISM

(01:59:39) SECTION C: TECH BROS

(02:46:44) SECTION D: PRONATALISM

(03:05:05) SECTION E: MAGA

SHOW IMAGE CREDITS

Description: Composite image depicting HHS Secretary RFK Jr. at a microphone in the center of an overlay of repeating, identical “people” icons. A handful of icons are different, bright neon colors and have a red X in a box over them.

Credits: Composite design by A. Hoffman. Elements from Pixabay. Photo credit: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” by Gage Skidmore, Flickr | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Changes: Cropped, background color change, and added overlay

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