Articles

^{Christopher Rufo

January 20, 2021

Economics}

“Antiracism” Comes to the Heartland

_{Christopher Rufo

January 20, 2021

Economics}

For years, Americans have watched as educators have pushed deeply divisive “antiracism” programs in coastal cities such as Berkeley, Portland, and Seattle. Now “antiracism” has come to the heartland. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith

January 18, 2021

Human Exceptionalism}

Washington Bill to Let Non-Doctors Participate in Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith

January 18, 2021

Human Exceptionalism}

When selling the legalization of assisted suicide, activists always promise that strict guidelines will protect against abuse. Read More ›

Gloria Akayi Asoloko Headshot

^{Discovery Institute

January 18, 2021

Economics}

2020 Gilder Fellow Wins African Writers Award for Drama

_{Discovery Institute

January 18, 2021

Economics}

Discovery Institute is excited to announce that Gloria Akayi Asoloko (known as "Akayi"), an alum of the 2020 class of Gilder Fellows, is the new recipient of the African Writers Award for Drama for her first play "Who Knows Amanda?" Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo

January 13, 2021

Economics}

Woke Elementary

_{Christopher Rufo

January 13, 2021

Economics}

An elementary school in Cupertino, California—a Silicon Valley community with a median home price of $2.3 million—recently forced a class of third-graders to deconstruct their racial identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.” Read More ›

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^{Keri D. Ingraham

January 11, 2021

Education}

When Remote Learning Works

_{Keri D. Ingraham

January 11, 2021

Education}

When the coronavirus took the world by surprise in the early months of 2020, schools were among the first entities to close their doors, ceasing operations as normal. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo

January 6, 2021

Economics}

Radicals in the Classroom

_{Christopher Rufo

January 6, 2021

Economics}

The San Diego Unified School District has been radicalized. In recent months, the district has announced mandatory diversity training for teachers, added a new “ethnic studies” curriculum focused on racial grievance, and even abolished the requirement to turn in homework on time—all in the name of becoming, in the words of school board member Richard Barrera, “an anti-racist school district.” Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham

December 30, 2020

Education}

President Trump Issues Executive Order Expanding Educational Opportunity

_{Keri D. Ingraham

December 30, 2020

Education}

President Trump’s December 28 executive order expands educational opportunity by providing emergency learning scholarships to disadvantaged K-12 students to access in-person learning. These grants meet an urgent need among low-income, special needs, and minority students who have been disproportionately affected by school closures. Read More ›

^{Steven J. Buri

December 22, 2020

Discovery Institute}

Discovery Institute: World Changers

_{Steven J. Buri

December 22, 2020

Discovery Institute}

When Bruce Chapman and George Gilder founded Discovery Institute nearly 30 years ago, they envisioned it as a “distributive think tank,” one in which technology would unite the collaborative work of scholars around the country. It was a forward-thinking model that has served us well in 2020, a year in which Zoom meetings have replaced in-person gatherings, both personal and professional. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo

December 18, 2020

Economics}

Indoctrinating an Entire School System in PC Racism

_{Christopher Rufo

December 18, 2020

Economics}

What’s the goal here? Simply put, to transform Seattle schools into activist organizations. At the conclusion of the training, teachers had to explain how they will practice “anti-racist pedagogy,” address the “social-justice movements taking place” and become “anti-racist outside the classroom.” Read More ›

^{Evolution News

December 15, 2020

Intelligent Design}

First Animals? Fossils Won’t Fit Cambrian Evolution

_{Evolution News

December 15, 2020

Intelligent Design}

Evolutionists are still fighting over the first animals. Each new fossil creates new questions, but there is one constant: bluffing confidence that Darwinism is true. Here are some new developments in the Cambrian Explosion debates. Read More ›