The Atlantic
New York Times
Companion book recommended by Ken:
The Darwinian Revolution by Michael Ruse
(contains some fascinating insights into how Darwin and some of his contemporaries struggled with the conflict between their science and the religion that most of them were brought up with.)
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This is must reading for anyone interested in the historical roots of racism. Darwin's Origin of Species hit the eastern seaboard just as the abolitionist movement was coming to a head and gave the transcendentalists a lot to ponder.
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