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A Darwinian campaign season

By James Carroll

 |  Globe Columnist  

  April 09, 2012

Last week, President Obama characterized the budget positions of Republicans as social Darwinism. In one sense, the reference to the father of evolutionary theory was exactly wrong: To this writer’s eyes, the positions of GOP presidential hopefuls on broadly human questions - “values’’ - look like a willful replay of monkey-trial cluelessness. Yet this very campaign speaks to how rapidly our society is evolving, and it isn’t only the Republicans who are grasping at how to respond.

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