it turned to harry laughlin was epileptic. it's unclear exactly when he knew that it was epileptic. he and his wife never had children, but reading that one does wonder so much hatred starts with self-hatred come was he so driven in part because he felt he was unworthy? and even when he had his first seizures and i don't knew he was epileptic at a certain point, his wife wouldn't let him drive anymore. he never argued to remove epileptics from the list. there's a lot of mixed up in this bag. >> did darwin have any role in any of this? >> yes. so the man who coined the term from the two greek words, was a half dozen of darwin. he was really thinking in the moment right after darwin was coming up with his theories of evolution. he talked about how we can see how nature works itself out through survival of the fittest and that natural process but he argued that what is have kevin rudd about, eugenicists would speed up and do more humanely rather than fight over the years and years, to the right choosing and sort of design the fittest would survive. but darwin himself was not a eugenici

harry laughlin, the villain of the book, is given an honorary degree from the university a year afterhey purged all of the jews from the faculty. he was fine with that because he was a nazi supervisor. amy: let's go to a break. only come back, we will talk about the u.s. model, thing a model for the nazis, but how immigration law fits into this picture and what are the parallels with today. we are talking with adam cohen, journalist and lawyer, previously a member of "the new york times" editorial board and a senior writer for time magazine. his brand-new book is called "imbeciles: the supreme court, , american eugenics, and the sterilization of carrie buck." stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: coon creek girls, "flowers blooming in the wildwood." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. , authort is adam cohen of the new book "imbeciles: the , supreme court, american eugenics, and the sterilization of carrie buck." nermeen: i want to turn to a clip from the 1961 film, "judgment at nuremberg," which references the 1927 cas