In Social Darwinism in American Thought, the 1944 book that popularized the term, Richard Hofstadter writes that the ideology, at least “as a conscious philosophy,” had “largely disappeared” in the United States by the end of World War I, thanks to its uncomfortably Teutonic overtones.
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Baker, Erik. “Trump’s Darwinian America.” Harper’s Magazine, July 2025. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/07/trumps-darwinian-america-erik-baker/.
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