Aladdin, you may remember from the Disney movie, calls himself a "street rat" and knows how to survive amid homelessness. He is competent. He has "agency," the belief that he can act to improve his circumstances. That mindset is different from what former foster child Rob Henderson describes in his good memoir, Troubled.
It’s tempting to think that human trafficking is a problem in a far-away land. Unfortunately, it’s much closer. Like in our back yard closer. On this episode, host Robert J. Marks speaks with Charlie Crockett, head educational trainer with Unbound Now, an organization that works to combat human trafficking through education, training, victim services, and partnerships with law enforcement. The pair discuss how online technologies like social media are used to recruit victims and exploit their vulnerabilities. Crockett explains just how prevalent this dehumanizing criminal practice has become. Human trafficking, including sex trafficking and labor trafficking, is a major problem in the United States, with an estimated 313,000 victims in the state of Texas alone. An estimated …
The urge to help people kill themselves has intensified in recent decades, even to the point of pushing the reluctant towards death. How did we reach this place? On this ID The Future, historian and author Dr. Richard Weikart joins veteran radio and podcast host Dr. Jerry Newcombe to discuss how the evolutionary ethic has undermined the value of human life, the topic of his latest book, Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing. In his book, Dr. Weikart traces the complex and fascinating history of ideas, attitudes, and legal wranglings surrounding assisted suicide and euthanasia stretching from Socrates to Peter Singer and beyond. Along the way Weikart shows diverse thinkers wrestling with the tension between the unalienable preciousness of human life and the longing …
It’s no secret that American education is experiencing a profound crisis. Many of our children can’t read, do mathematics, or learn basic life skills. At the same time, many accuse the education establishment of imposing radical ideological views on children such as gender ideology and anti-Americanism. The good news is that concerted efforts are underway to reform education to better equip children for adulthood and to be productive members of society. My colleague at Discovery Institute — Dr. Keri D. Ingraham, Director of the American Center for Transforming Education — has followed these developments closely and has learned opinions about what has gone wrong in education, what is working, and what should be done to improve the system. So, I asked her back to Humanize to …
Discovery Institute Vice President John West Speaking on “Let there be Light: The Bible’s Influence on the Creation and Perpetuation of Modern Science” at upcoming conference in Tacoma,
Discovery Insitute is pleased to invite our supporters and friends to a private screening of a significant new documentary, Fentanyl Death Incorporated. The event will feature Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, fentanyl expert, and former White House Policy Advisor, Dr. Robert Marbut, who served as Senior Producer. The film documents the trail of Fentanyl from China to Mexico and Canada, and then to the US through a series of visits to these countries while interviewing the top law enforcement agents, undercover US intelligence officers, DEA agents, medical professionals, policymakers, former addicts and families impacted by this crisis. The skyrocketing addiction and deaths make our country the epicenter for multi-billion-dollar criminal enterprise, with the …
Join us at the 7th Annual Dallas Conference on Science & Faith on February 8 at Denton Bible Church or via livestream for a stimulating series of talks on the theme of “All Creatures Great &