Why do conservative intellectual         magazines keep         shooting themselves in the foot by attacking Darwin? The         magazine with the least to be embarrassed about is National Review.         Although it has printed some dopey Creationist stuff, under both former         editor John O'Sullivan and current         editor Rich Lowry, it has also printed my neo-Darwinian analyses,          Still, National Review Online editor Jonah Goldberg offers         an         important clue into why normally sophisticated conservative editors         give the anti-Darwin crowd a platform, in his response to Michael         Lind's NYT attack on the Religious Right's influence over the         conservative press:
"Let us not forget that Marx and Freud were once established scientific fact as well. And, moreover, let’s see Lind’s friends at          Dissent run a negative article about Marx, Freud, or Darwin."
In other words, Jonah thinks that Darwin is sacrosanct on the Left. I suspect this view is common among Right editors. In reality, the Left absolutely hates what Darwin said about human nature. See my NR essay on Edward O. Wilson's Sociobiology for the details. 12/9/01
 
 
 
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