Viewpoint: “Positive eugenics”: Reviving a movement reviled and condemned for a century The Guardian | November 5, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/11/05/viewpoint-positive-eugenics-reviving-a-movement-reviled-and-condemned-for-a-century/ Subway ads promising parents their “best baby” are a sign that eugenics has returned in a sleek, consumer-friendly form, argues author Jan Grue in an essay for The Guardian. Grue, who has lived with a rare neuromuscular condition since childhood, warns that today’s “liberal eugenics” swaps state coercion for parental choice but keeps many of the old assumptions.