John West has done a characteristically excellent job in analyzing social Darwinism and the insidious ideology which has infected almost every area of American public policy. This is provocative and important reading.
Chuck Colson, Founder Prison Fellowship
Preface ix
Introduction xiii
Origins of Scientific Materialism
1. Nothing Buttery from Atomism to the Enlightenment 3
2. Darwin's Revolution 23
Crime and Punishment
3. Criminal Science 45
4. Crime as Mental Illness 61
5. Turning Punishment into Treatment 79
Wealth and Poverty
6. Law of the Jungle 105
7. Breeding Our Way out of Poverty 123
8. The Science of Business 163
9. Building the World of Tomorrow 187
Schools and Scholars
10. Darwin Day in America 209
11. Banned in Burlington 231
12. Junk Science in the Bedroom 269
13. Sex Miseducation 291
Life and Death
14. Redefining Life 325
15. Redefining Death 343
Conclusion: The Abolition of Man 359
Notes 377
Index 473