TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 2019Darwin scholar who left his
mark on the cultural left
An academic and a publisher, Robert M Young was a driving force in
the radical science collective of the Seventies
Young was a combative personality who embraced controversy (Courtesy of family)
ROGER SMITH
Robert M Young was a historian of the evolutionary and psychological sciences, psychotherapist, radical
critic of science, academic and scourge of academics, a publisher, TV producer and libertarian socialist.
Young, who has died aged 83, was a combative personality who embraced controversy in his personal and
institutional relations, giving life to the slogan “the personal is political”.
Born into a Presbyterian family in Highland Park, a rich suburb of Dallas, Young studied at Yale University