H.G Wells: Godfather of American Liberalism, With Added Bonus Eugenics, Anti-Capitalism and Totalitarian Wet Dreams

A fantastic essay from the ever stellar City Journal web site.

"antidemocratic and elitist assumptions were nowhere better illustrated than in the extraordinary career of a Briton, H. G. Wells. Wells is best remembered today as the author of such late-nineteenth-century socio-scientific fantasies as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The Invisible Man. But he was much more than that. His political writing achieved extraordinary influence in America, not just through his defense of liberal freedoms such as free speech but through his hostility to population growth, capitalism, and democracy itself..."