The Genius Factory
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jun 2026 on The Ezra Klein Show.
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Helen Lewis👍 Recommends
…book recommendation about eugenics and the attempt to create superior offspring through sperm donation
“I have brought The Genius Factory by David Plotz, which is the story of one mad eugenicist millionaire who decides that the way to solve all of America's problem is to get lots of Nobel Prize winners to donate their sperm. And give it to couples to make babies. Let me just shock you, doesn't go well. A lot of the people turn out not to be Nobel Prize winners.”
The Ezra Klein Show — The New Right’s Very Old Vision of Menat 43:10
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