Film for Compulsory Sterilization from the 1930s (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s Reference)
David Beito •
Friday March 23, 2012 9:26 AM PDT •
In this disturbing 1934 propaganda film for eugenics, “Tomorrows Children,” the judge ordering a sterilization paraphrases “progressive,” Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s infamous line from the majority opinion in Buck v. Bell: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
David Beito is a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute and editor of the Independent book, The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (with Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok).
Full biography and recent publications
Posts by David Beito
Full biography and recent publications
Posts by David Beito
