Spencer's ideas laid the groundwork for social Darwinism, but scholars say there was much more to the Victorian Age thinker than that.
55 months ago

Ian Millhiser has responded to both my defense of Herbert Spencer and one from Reason's Damon Root. Unwavering in his belief that Spencer...
115 months ago

The Herbert Spencer uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over a Dominican binder and Dominican fillers. It's offered in five sizes, four of which are regular...
54 months ago

Herbert Spencer, who has died aged 77, was one of the most influential British communication designers and typographers. By Rick Poynor.
272 months ago

“My freedom ends where yours begins” is the sort of truism most people happily relate to, when discussing politics and whatever idea of...
63 months ago

April 27th marks the birthday of Herbert Spencer, who merits attention in several respects. He was a polymath who made important...
79 months ago

Cambridge University Press has released a short new book by Jeffrey O'Connell and Michael Ruse on Social Darwinism that is likely to infuriate quite a few...
43 months ago

A clear and principled defense of individual liberty, private property and free enterprise, and the need for a limited government that would be narrowly...
55 months ago

Today, Herbert Spencer should be known as one of the great classical liberal anti-imperialists. Unfortunately, any mention of his name is...
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Herbert Spencer wrote that the “typical structure” of a militant society can be seen in an army of conscripts.
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