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But here we all are, entertaining pseudo-celebrity flirtations with played-out social Darwinist ideas, and wondering how anyone still has the energy to even say this dude’s name.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2024

Some even accuse him, history’s most outspoken opponent of social Darwinism, of being — you guessed it — a social Darwinist.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2021

It fits neatly, however, into a social Darwinist framework.

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2020

Up until then, the most famous invocation belonged to William Graham Sumner—a social Darwinist, part of the movement espousing the belief that survival of the fittest ought to apply to society as well as biology.

From Time • Nov. 11, 2016

This week, President Obama called him a social Darwinist.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2012