World War Two dealt the most devastating blow of all to all the different strains of antiliberalism—racial, ethnic, and religious. The effect of the war on the ongoing struggle between liberalism and antiliberalism was visible on several fronts. First was the nature of the enemy. That Hitler was the ultimate promoter of the racist views that had grown so popular in the United States was not lost on contemporaries. The Nazi implementation of eugenics policies, the institutionalization and militarization of “Nordic” supremacy, so badly discredited the vast and influential school of eugenics in
...more
