Reddit reviews Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
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I started to make one a while back but didn't get too far. There are just too many great books to choose from.
Classics 1950-1970
What is Conservatism?
The Conservative Mind
The Road to Serfdom
The Constitution of Liberty
Ideas Have Consequences
The Quest for Community
Economics in One Lesson
Capitalism and Freedom
In Defense of Freedom
Age of Reagan 1970-1990
The Conservative Intellectual Movement Since 1945
Modern Times
Knowledge and Decisions
A Conflict of Visions
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Roots Of American Order
Modern Must Reads 1990-Today
The Clash of Civilizations
A History of the American People
The Vision of the Annointed
Intellectuals and Society
Illiberal Reformers
Restoring the Lost Constitution
How To Be A Conservative
You don't even know the history of the movement you support but you're so sure of yourself. You are completely ignorant about their history yet at the same time completely uninterested in learning facts that might change your opinion. You probably don't read books but here is one anyway.
Princeton University scholar Thomas C. Leonard has written about this topic extensively in his 2016 book Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era.
https://www.amazon.com/Illiberal-Reformers-Eugenics-Economics-Progressive/dp/0691175861
>In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not for all. Academic social scientists such as Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and Edward A. Ross, together with their reform allies in social work, charity, journalism, and law, played a pivotal role in establishing minimum-wage and maximum-hours laws, workmen's compensation, antitrust regulation, and other hallmarks of the regulatory welfare state. But even as they offered uplift to some, economic progressives advocated exclusion for others, and did both in the name of progress. Leonard meticulously reconstructs the influence of Darwinism, racial science, and eugenics on scholars and activists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, revealing a reform community deeply ambivalent about America's poor. Illiberal Reformers shows that the intellectual champions of the regulatory welfare state proposed using it not to help those they portrayed as hereditary inferiors but to exclude them.
> As an outsider your entire line of reasoning amounts to "common sense tho"
That's because it is common sense. If you don't think it is then I have some bad news for you dude: you're not sufficiently knowledgeable for this discourse. Read a history book about scientific racism or something, I'd recommend this and especially this.