Articles

^{Keri D. Ingraham
May 7, 2024
Education}

College Campus Protests Are a Byproduct of K-12 Education

_{Keri D. Ingraham
May 7, 2024
Education}

Tent encampments, violent protests, and defiant students are taking over the campuses of many of America’s most prestigious higher education institutions. In some cases, Jewish students have been forced to leave mid-semester, classes have been canceled or moved to remote only, and buildings have been barricaded by pro-Palestinian protesters. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 6, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Again with the ‘Plants Are Intelligent’ Nonsense

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 6, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Periodically, the mainstream media focus on advocacy for the idea that plants are intelligent and/or moral beings. For example, the New York Times ran a column some years back asserting that peas are persons. Why? Pea plants release chemicals in the soil that alert other pea plants of drought conditions. Read More ›

^{Bruce Chapman
May 3, 2024
Citizen Leadership}

Documentary Hopes to Inspire Nation to Address Homelessness Crisis

_{Bruce Chapman
May 3, 2024
Citizen Leadership}

Last night, a VIP Exclusive screening of the documentary "Americans With No Address" was held in Bellevue, Washington. The documentary stars Billy Baldwin, and features Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Robert Marbut who also served as Executive Producer. Read More ›

Manhattan Midtown Skyline with illuminated skyscrapers at sunset. NYC, USA

^{Marvin Olasky
May 3, 2024
Homelessness}

Helping the Manhattan Poor: A History

_{Marvin Olasky
May 3, 2024
Homelessness}

Much of what we hear in national media concerning homelessness originates in the salons of Manhattan, and if we want to understand why our policy savants sometimes go far off course, we should understand the history of New York City’s successes and failures. Read More ›

Medical Science Laboratory with Team of Microbiology Scientists Have Meeting

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 29, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 29, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Bioethics has always been about granting "experts" in the field tremendous influence over public policy. And now, one of the most prominent practitioners in the field — the president and CEO of the Hastings Center Report, a prestigious bioethics journal — has urged that bioethicists expand their "expert" advocacy to issues of "global" importance. Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
April 26, 2024
Homelessness}

The Ups and Downs of Recovery at The Forge

_{Marvin Olasky
April 26, 2024
Homelessness}

The past two months I've written about those making progress at Forge, the Christian shelter I lived at in Joplin, Missouri. But not everyone perseveres. I played disc golf on a sunny day last October with one Forge resident who told me how he had become a devotee of YouTube Satanist channels. For a time, he combined demonic rituals, drug use, and increasingly elaborate drawings of skulls and skeletons. Read More ›

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 25, 2024
Homelessness}

The Dirty Little Secret About Homelessness Is the Key to Ending It

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 25, 2024
Homelessness}

The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about what cities can and cannot do to end homelessness. What everyone agreed on was that homelessness is a difficult problem. I think most people listening to the Supreme Court would agree: it isn’t going to solve homelessness. That is a job for state legislators. So why haven’t they? Why has homelessness gotten worse? Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 25, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

The Biden Department of Education Seems to Hate Women and Girls

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 25, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

In a slap to the face to all American women and girls in schools and universities, the Department of Education dismantled many existing federal protections against actual sex discrimination promulgated under a civil rights law known as Title IX — which protects females against discrimination at public schools, colleges, and universities receiving federal funding — by unilaterally rewriting the law to apply to “gender,” which isn’t the same thing at all. Read More ›

^{Jonathan Choe
April 23, 2024
Homelessness}

Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Homelessness Case: Full Analysis

_{Jonathan Choe
April 23, 2024
Homelessness}

The US Supreme Court confronted the nation's homelessness crisis on Monday, weighing whether a ban on sleeping in public is constitutional. Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Dr. Robert Marbut is in Washington D.C. with a full breakdown and analysis. Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
April 19, 2024
Homelessness}

Homelessness in Colonial New England

_{Marvin Olasky
April 19, 2024
Homelessness}

Since starting this weekly column in June 2022 I’ve covered lots of topics, including homelessness in late medieval England — but I’ve shorted American history. Since today, April 19, is the anniversary of the battles in Lexington and Concord that started the Revolutionary War in 1775, it’s a good day on which to take a rapid ride through the New England countryside and summarize common responses to homelessness in the 17th and 18th centuries. Read More ›