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The Education Freedom Tax Credit: A Historic Win for American Families: Keri D. Ingraham; October 29, 2026; 3; Education

“Nature Rights” Hits the Big Time: Wesley J. Smith; October 27, 2026; 5; Human Exceptionalism

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A Special Event with U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon & Keri D. Ingraham

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On October 19, 2026, Discovery Institute’s American Center for Transforming Education hosted a special event with U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and American Center for Transforming Education Director Keri D. Ingraham. The event, which took place in a private home in Woodway, Washington, kicked off Secretary McMahon’s visit to Washington state as part of her “Returning Education to the States” tour.

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VIDEO: Secretary McMahon and Keri D. Ingraham Celebrate Returning Education to the States at Special Event: American Center for Transforming Education; November 4, 2026; Education

Robert J. Marks II Talks AI Killer Robots on Real Science Radio: Discovery Institute; October 27, 2026; Technology

Is School Choice a Threat to Freedom? Keri D. Ingraham Addresses a Common Objection on Unmasking Government Schools Podcast: American Center for Transforming Education; October 15, 2026; Education

Power, Politics, and Seattle’s Homelessness Machine: Jonathan Choe; October 7, 2026; Homelessness

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Is the Human Body Poorly Designed? An Award-Winning Engineer Answers

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November 2, 2026}

Is the natural world full of flawed, makeshift designs, as some critics of intelligent design have argued? Or are living things far more ingeniously engineered than we’ve been led to believe? On this episode of ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid is pleased to bring you a conversation with award-winning British engineer and designer Dr. Stuart Burgess, a senior fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and author of the book Ultimate Engineering. Dr. Burgess has spent decades studying engineering design, both in human technology and in humans themselves. And his work has led him to challenge the popular claim that biology is full of poor design. In this conversation, originally recorded for the Truthful Hope podcast, host Jacob Vasquez talks with …

“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Samuel Wilberforce Critiques Darwin

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 30, 2026}

In June 1860, just seven months after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, three men hotly debated the merits of Darwin’s argument at a meeting of the British Association. Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley and botanist Joseph Hooker defended Darwin’s theory. English bishop, speaker, and writer Samuel Wilberforce critiqued it. And though he was a man of the cloth, Wilberforce did not build a theological case against Darwin. Rather, he evaluated the argument for natural selection on scientific grounds, exposing its “loose statements and unfounded speculations” by weighing it “in the simple scales of logical examination.” On this classic ID The Future out of the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid treats you to excerpts from Wilberforce’s …

Co-Opting Purpose: How Materialists Redefine Biological Agency

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
October 28, 2026}

Purpose has been a fundamental part of our understanding of nature for millennia. But the rise of scientific materialism and Darwinism saw purpose get left out of the scientific pursuit. In recent years, materialists have found it necessary to bring purpose back into the equation, and they’re looking for a way to explain it without recourse to intelligent design. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with Dr. Stephen Iacoboni, an award-winning cancer researcher and practitioner of medical oncology for forty years. 20th-century materialism treated living organisms as reducible machines governed strictly by Newtonian physics and simple genetic mechanics. But modern research shows organisms are not passive objects: “Organisms don’t act …

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A Special Event with U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon & Keri D. Ingraham

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VIDEO: Secretary McMahon and Keri D. Ingraham Celebrate Returning Education to the States at Special Event

Robert J. Marks II Talks AI Killer Robots on Real Science Radio

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Is the Human Body Poorly Designed? An Award-Winning Engineer Answers

“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Samuel Wilberforce Critiques Darwin

Co-Opting Purpose: How Materialists Redefine Biological Agency

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