Still putting my thoughts together on this (very!) imperfect book, but I think dismissing it as mere "Calvinism" is mistaken. The various contradictions Harden struggles with are interesting precisely b/c she is a microcosm for our conflicting collective impulses
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Kathryn Paige Harden’s new book offers a defense of a kind of Scientific Calvinism that converges with the eugenicist ideals of the contemporary Far Right.