Chris Jones: Eugenics, George Bernard Shaw and the need for a dramatic reckoning
by Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
Jul 24, 2020
3 minutes
On Monday, Planned Parenthood removed the name of Margaret Sanger from its health clinic in Manhattan. By way of explanation, the organization cited its founder's "harmful connections to the eugenics movement."
So is this now curtains for George Bernard Shaw?
How about H.G. Wells and his "The War of the Worlds"?
Henrik Ibsen and his "A Doll's House"?
T.S. Eliot? Virginia Woolf?
All of the above had strong connections to the eugenics movement. So did the hugely influential economist John Maynard Keynes. At one point
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