390 Index
Reagan,Ronald:accusedof socialDarwinism,4; 286–289; upheldby HerbertSpencer,62;
appreciatesHenryHazlitt,282; defended versusfakewelfare-state“rights”, 286, 288,
againstchargeof socialDarwinismby 289, 335–336.See alsocapitalism;initiationof
conservatives,8; quoted,245; sayslibertynot the use of force;laissezfaire;liberalism
left or right, 245 (classical);Locke,John;Ruleof Peace;Rand,
reason,facultyof: accusedof fosteringtyranny, Ayn
65–66, 326–327; and liberty,xi–xii, 324–329; rightwing:conflatedwitheugenics,x, xvii–xix,
blamedfor the Holocaust,65–66; requiresthe 27–31, 32, 39, 40–43, 45–46, 112, 123, 124–125;
libertyto act foolishlybut peaceably, conflatedwithfascists,x, xvii–xix, 151, 152;
326–327; rejectedby Nazispracticing conflatedwithNazis,x, xvii–xix, 54–58, 140;
medicine,211; rejectedby Romanticist conflatedwithsocialDarwinism,85, 94, 99,
philosophy,69–74, 211; versusfaithand 106, 112, 113, 115–116, 120, 122, 123, 124; not
arbitrarypronouncements,320–327; versus exclusiveprovinceof eugenics,84–86, 87–88,
tyranny,324–329 88–91, 92–99, 105, 108–109, 112–115, 118–125,
ReasonFoundation,202, 203 134–135, 245–250, 251; versusup-wingers,
recombinantbovinesomatotropin(rBST), 210 245–246.See alsoconservatives;eugenics;
Redbeard,Ragnar(pseudonymouswriter), fascism;Progressives;RepublicanParty;
248–249 “socialDarwinism” (term);socialists;
redheads,59, 274 survivalof the fittest
Rees,Robert(journalist),5, 12–15, 62 Riis,Jacob, 167
Reese,ThomasJ. (theologian), 4 Rivera,Diego,6–7
“reformDarwinism” (term),109–110, 123 Roach,Marion,27, 59, 112
regulatory-entitlementstate:less extremethan “Roark,Howard” (fictionalcharacter), 58
totalitarianism,xiv.See alsogovernism;New robberbarons(nineteenth-century
Deal;Progressives;welfarestate industrialists),xi, 8, 32–39, 54–57, 58, 61, 168,
republicanism:and DueProcess,xv, 306–308, 265–266; deridedby anthropologists,270;
311; betterthananarchy,306–308, 311; deridedby BarackObama,xi; deridedby
defined,xiv–xv; versusdemocracy,xiv–xv CarlSagan,57; deridedby conservatives,
RepublicanParty,4, 31, 32 56–57; deridedby EdwinBlack,32–39;
Reeve,Christopher(actor),244–245 deridedby E. O. Wilson,55–56; deridedby
revolutionarysyndicalism, 152 RichardDawkins,57–58; deridedby Robert
Ridley,Matt:ingratitudeto HerbertSpencer, Wright,61; deridedby StephenJay Gould,
276–277; onBuckv. Bell, 105; on compulsory 54–57; deridedbyWallStreetJournal, 8;
sterilization,105, 123; on eugenicistsbeing deridedinBionomicsbook,265–266.See also
left-wing,93; on germlinegenetic capitalism;EnlightenmentEra (historical
engineering,243; on HerbertSpencer,27; on period);IndustrialRevolution;Inventive
“ideashavingsex”, 277; on Josiah Period;Westernmortalityrate
WedgwoodIV versusKarlPearson,123; on Robbins,Tim(Hollywoodcelebrity), 193
“socialDarwinism” as term, 27 Roberts,Stephen, 234
Riehl,WilhelmHeinrich:againstIndustrial Robespierre,Maximilian, 328
Revolution,219, 221; as collectivist,219; as Robinson,Greg(historian), 116
Volkishromanticist,219–220, 221; influence Robinson,JamesA., 104, 107, 301–302
on twentieth-centuryenvironmentalist RockefellerFoundation, 216
movementof freerworld,219, 221 Rockefeller,JohnD., Jr.: and eugenics,32, 37, 39;
rights:and LouisBrandeis,105–107; and quotationwronglyattributedto father, 55
nonhumananimals,212–216; appliedto issue Rockefeller,JohnD., Sr.: accusedof social
of germlinegeneticengineering,239–245; as Darwinism,36–37, 55–56, 57–58, 61, 63; and
contextualabsolutes,286; as Lockeanrights, blackcolleges,38; and Ida Tarbell,156, 157;
xiv, 215–216; deniedby FrancisLieber,223; and philanthropy,36; and RobertC. Wright,
deniedby OliverWendellHolmes,Jr., 62, 64; 61; comparedto Hitler,54, 55–56, 57–58;
deniedby RichardT. Ely, 88–89; deniedby misquoted,55; on federalpersonalincome
U.S.progressives,62, 64, 88–89, 223; tax, 63; quoted,36, 63; versusMussolini,156,
disbelievedby WilliamGrahamSumner, 157; versusOliverWendellHolmes,63.See
285–289; inapplicableto nonhumananimals, alsoInventivePeriod;robberbarons
215–216; presumedto be context-less, (nineteenth-centuryindustrialists)