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The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing: Evolution News; September 14, 2019

Is Gender in Penguins a Human Construct?: Jonathan Wells; September 13, 2019

Woodstock 50 Years Later: An Eyewitness Account: Scott S. Powell; August 14, 2019

Pushback: Christopher Rufo; August 8, 2019

‘New Left Urbanists’ Want to Remake Your City

_{Christopher Rufo
August 22, 2019}

America’s big cities are almost all dominated by the Democratic Party, but the politics of urban development are far from monolithic. In the past few years, a new faction has emerged across the country. Call them the new left urbanists. These activists have big dreams. They want local governments to rebuild the urban environment—housing, transit, roads and tolls—to achieve social justice, racial justice and net-zero carbon emissions. They rally around slogans such as “ban all cars,” “raze the suburbs” and “single-family housing is white supremacy”—though they’re generally white and affluent themselves, often employed in public or semipublic roles in urban planning, housing development and social advocacy. They treat public housing, mass transit and bike lanes as a holy trinity, and they want to impose their religion on you.

Events

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Well, Why Not Socialism?

_{George Gilder
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Seattle Pacific University, Upper Gwinn Commons
Seattle, WA}

Join Michael Medved, George Gilder, and Jay Richards on Thursday, August 8th.

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2nd Annual European Conference on Intelligent Design

_{Katherine West
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Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture is co-sponsoring the 2nd Annual European Conference on Intelligent Design with TDI Brasil, Discovery Mackenzie, and Fundation Dignidad Y Liberdad. In its first year, this event was initially planned in Faro, Portugal. After pushback from local activists, it was moved to Porto, Portugal and — after further pushback — to its ultimate location in Leon, Spain. The opposition, which claimed that the conference was not truly of a scientific nature, served only to increase interest from local students and the community. In the end, a charter bus was provided to bring students from Portugal to Spain — traveling 2,000 km round-trip to reach the event. You can read the full story here. After a great turnout, the organizers are excited …

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COSM

_{A National Technology Summit on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Crypto, and Life After Google}_{Discovery Institute
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The Westin Bellevue
Bellevue, WA}

The COSM Conference is a premier national summit on the converging future of technology. Held in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, COSM highlights the interplay between global innovations and the pullulating Seattle scene of some of the world’s leading tech companies confronting the fastest moving opportunities. Focusing on the “systems of the world” competing to shape our economy and society, the mission of the conference is to stimulate debate and deliberation on the cosmic unities animating an array of apparently divergent technology areas. From artificial intelligence and blockchain to 5G and crypto-currency, from autonomous vehicles and cloud computing to the biotech revolution and to internet commerce, it is all converging in Seattle and …