# Barack Obama, Social Darwinism, and Survival of the Fittest, Part 1

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/barack-obama-social-darwinism-and-survival-of-the-fittest-part-1>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** January 7, 2015

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George H. Smith interrupts his series on education with a discussion of social Darwinism.

[Originally published in essay form on April 10, 2012.](https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/excursions/barack-obama-social-darwinism-survival-fittest-part-1)

_Narrated by James Foster._