01/14/2009
Louis Bayard [email him] attacks nineteenth century philosopher Herbert Spencer in the liberal Washington Post, equating Spencer’s Social Darwinism with racism, and accusing him of uttering "paeans to the Aryan race " with a "quasi-scientific panache." Damon W. Root defends Spencer in the libertarian journal Reason, saying, (correctly) that Spencer uttered no such paeans.
Both men are missing the point — Spencer’s The Man Versus The State, which you can
read online,
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