Welcome to another episode of SALT Talks with host Anthony Scaramucci, and guest Daniel Okrent, the prize-winning author of six books, most recently The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. He was also the corporate Editor-at-Large at Time Inc., and was the first public editor of The New York Times.

Daniel’s latest book covers the false science of eugenics, a set of practices aimed to “improve” the genetic quality of the human population. “It seems to me that we as a species need somebody to look down on. I don’t know why that’s the case.” Daniel also discusses the blanket term “whiteness” and how its expansion seems to be based on familiarity with a race or culture.

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