The Same Idea Fueled the Holocaust and the Sexual Revolution | Seth Gruber

About this episode

Seth Gruber discusses how eugenic ideas influenced the sexual revolution and continue to affect various societal aspects today.

Episode Summary: The sexual revolution isn’t progress. It’s a regression into outright paganism. This is not an overstatement. Today, we trace a direct line from Malthus and Darwin to Galton, Havelock Ellis, and Margaret Sanger, exposing how eugenic ideas shaped the birth control movement and continue to influence law, medicine, education, and even the Church today. Seth Gruber joins us to unpack his documentary The 1916 Project, laying out the historical evidence and connecting the dot...

People in this episode

Guest: Seth Gruber

Topics covered

• sexual revolution
• eugenics
• birth control movement
• paganism
• historical evidence
• law and medicine
• influence on the Church

Keywords

• sexual revolution
• eugenics
• Malthus
• Darwin
• birth control
• The 1916 Project
• Margaret Sanger
• paganism
• law
• medicine

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The 1916 Project

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