This collection will be an essential design history resource—if it meets its funding goal.
4 months ago

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

Every week I seem to find out that there is some phrase or quote that I've repeated countless times but have been wrongly attributing it all...
52 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...
113 months ago

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

Herbert Spencer wrote that the “typical structure” of a militant society can be seen in an army of conscripts.
21 months ago

The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying...
41 months ago

When the second sentence of your essay begins with the phrase "in the interests of historical accuracy," everything that follows really...
150 months ago

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

A blue plaque is unveiled in Derby in honour of a Victorian man who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" and invented the paper...
126 months ago