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How does the American far right view genetics and genetic technologies?
What is the history of the American cultural pursuit of trying to choose smarter children? What has science shown us about the relationship of heredity and intelligence?
How does the idea of eugenics influence the current administration?
How does the American far right use the concept of time?
What is the metapolitic? How did the far right build the metapolitic? How does this influence our political future?
Interview
Susanna Smith
Hi everyone, I’m Susanna Smith.
This is Genetic Frontiers, a podcast about the promise, power, and perils of genetic information. Find us wherever podcasts are found and go to GeneticFrontiers.org to join the conversation about how genetic discoveries are propelling new, personalized medical treatments but also posing ethical dilemmas and emotional quandaries.
This season we’re focusing on Genetics in American Politics & Culture. We talk with historians, journalists, technologists and philosophers about the alluring but dangerous pursuit of improving the human species through genetics. We discuss how ideas about people’s genetic worth and worthiness are driving American...