Richard Weikart on Darwinism and Hitlerism

In his most recent book, Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress, Discovery Institute fellow Richard Weikart lays out a historian's case for the proposition that Adolf Hitler's murderous policies arose from a scientific racism inspired by Charles Darwin's most famous ideas.

According to Weikart, Hitler wasn't an amoral monster, but a frighteningly "moral" one -- "moral" in the sense of principled, of course. Principles can be directed to evil or to good. Hitler was...