Symposium for Human Differentiation
 

presenters at the Symposium for Human Differentiation, in Gstaad (either 1972 or 1974), themed on "the consequences of egalitarian ideology"
 
Arthur Shenfield: British academic who argued for the "fundamental right" of "discrimination in personal or business relations for racial and cultural reasons" (41)
 
Nathaniel Weyl, presenting a "fusion of pseudo-scientific racism and libertarianism"
 
Rothbard (see separate note), citing the work of Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein (known as a co-author of The Bell Curve, who argued for a "genetic basic for inequality of intelligence")
 
"'Biology,' he wrote, 'stands like a rock in the face of egalitarian fantasies.'" [see separate note]

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