Index 389237–238; severityof, 237 PulitzerPrize,20, 68, 82, 86, 104, 116, 117, 120,
The Principlesof Ethics(book):explains 141, 185, 278, 282
individualrights,62; makesconcessionsto The Pursuitof Happyness(book), 111
socialcollectivism,291–293.See alsoBlack,
Edwin;The ManVersusthe State(book);Social Quakers,68–69
Statics(book);Spencer,Herbert quackmedications,12–21
privatedetectives, 111 quantifyingthe mortalityrate.SeeWestern
Proctor,Robert:agreesthat governmentshould mortalityrate
policecitizens’ health,202–203; applauds
Nazienvironmentalism,201, 210; credits “racesuicide” (expression),114, 119
Naziswithdiscoveringdangerof smoking, racism:and segregation,108, 110–111, 117–118;
201, 202; dislikeslibertarians,202; on and vigilantes,307; and W. E. B. Du Bois,
indigenouspeople’s cultures,214; praises 117–118; legitimateanthropological
Nazis’ organicfarmingmethodsas wiser theorizingaccusedof, 55–56, 274; motivates
thanU.S.agribusiness,210–211; refuted immigrationrestriction,30, 90, 97, 112–114,
aboutNazis’ organicfarmingmethods,211; 119, 120, 121–122; of Fabiansocialists,93–94,
wrongto creditNazisfor discoveringdanger 97; of Progressives,85, 91, 108, 110, 112–114,
of smoking, 202 115–120, 123; of TheodoreRoosevelt,
Progressives:as eugenicists,65, 81, 84, 85, 90, 115–116, 119; of WoodrowWilson,108;
104, 108–109, 112–124, 139; calledthe enemies opposedby AugustaStreetcarCompany,
of socialDarwinism,xvii–xix, 65, 107, 121, 111; opposedby HerbertSpencer,43–44, 111;
122, 124; hatingJewsfor beingcapitalists, opposedby WilliamGrahamSumner,44–45,
167; imposingimmigrationcontrols,112–114; 111; “scientific” version,30, 65, 85; versus
identifiedas the philosophiccauseof individualchoicesin socialinequality,41–42.
eugenics,115, 122, 123–124, 124, 139; See alsoDu Bois,W. E. B.; eugenics;German
inaccuratelycalledsupportersof open WorkersParty(earlyversionof NaziParty);
immigration,112, 113; indirectlyinfluenced interracialmarriage;Jim Crowlaws;
by Jean-JacquesRousseau,328; indirectly scientificracists;segregation;Volkish
influencedby Kant,328; indirectly movement
influencedby Plato,328; influencedby Rall,Ted, 154
nineteenth-centuryGermanphilosophy,90, Rand,Ayn,xi–xii; accusedof socialDarwinism,
222–223, 328; influenceon Nazieugenics 4, 6, 9–10, 58–59, 89; and charity,9–10, 58;
policy,108, 139; racismof, 108, 110–111, compareshumanconceptualfacultyto file
112–122, 121–122, 123, 139; nowdenying cabinet,324; completesJohnLocke’s
socialistkinshipwithfascism,159; now incompletetheoryof rights,325; defends
denyingsocialistkinshipwithNaziism,159; ethicsof self-interest,9–10, 12, 56, 58–59;
nowequatingcorporationswithfascism,154; deridedby Bill McKibben,333–334;
sexismof, 106; supportingcompulsory disparagedby conservatives,9–10, 56;
sterilization,105, 113, 115, 123; supporting disparagedby libertarians,56; her principles
Jim Crow,110–111; supportingsegregation, versusPlato’s ideals,287; influenceoverthis
108, 110–111; less extremethan trilogy,31; not a socialDarwinist,9–10,
totalitarianism,xiv, 216–217; trashIndustrial 58–59, 225; on anarchy,305; on Aristotle,225,
Revolutionin mannersimilartoMeinKampf, 327–328; on history’s duelbetweenPlatoand
177; whitewashfascism,155–158.See also Aristotle,225; on vigilantes,305; opposes
antitrust;Brandeis,Louis;Commons,John Japanese-Americaninternment,116–117;
R.; compulsorysterilization;GODvernment quoted,9–10, 58–59, 305, 327–328; solvesthe
(concept);Hofstadter,Richard;immigration; Is-OughtProblemthat WilliamGraham
left-wingintellectuals;Leonard,ThomasC.; Sumnerleavesunresolved,286.See also
NewDeal;The NewRepublic(magazine); reason,facultyof; self-interest
racism;Roosevelt,Theodore;Social Ratzenhofer,Gustav, 87
DemocraticParties;Westernmortalityrate; Ravitch,Diane,81, 86
Wilson,Woodrow rBST.seerecombinantbovinesomatotropin
Pross,Christian, 211 (rBST)
Proust,JosephLouis(scientist), 323 Read,LeonardE., 264
publicschools.Seegovernmentschools