Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalismby Richard Weikart (Discovery Institute, 187 pages, $ 15.95)

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n 1909, on the 50th anniversary of the execution for treason of the radical-Christian abolitionist John Brown, the black intellectual WEB Du Bois published a tribute to him, who in his own time and after his death, during the subsequent American Civil War, had become an inspirational martyr for anti-slavery, anti-racist whites and blacks. But Du Bois was confronted with a logical and rhetorical problem that he struggled to overcome in his tribute. After the Civil War and the death of …