Articles

^{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 ›

United States Supreme Court Building in Washington DC, USA.

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 18, 2024
Homelessness}

SCOTUS Will Hear Arguments in Controversial Homelessness Case that Will Impact Cities Nationwide

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 18, 2024
Homelessness}

As homelessness hits all-time highs across the country, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments next Monday about whether the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property are constitutional. The case will determine how cities nationwide are allowed to respond to the crisis of homelessness. Read More ›

Man reading an e-book on the shore of a forest lake at sunset.

^{Bruce Chapman
April 16, 2024
Citizen Leadership}

Published Today: The Conservative Environmentalist

_{Bruce Chapman
April 16, 2024
Citizen Leadership}

Published today is Benji Backer’s book on how government ties up sound conservation policy in red tape that immobilizes real reform. Benji is a University of Washington grad I was proud to have as a Chapman Fellow at Discovery Institute a few years back. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 15, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Belgian Health-Fund President: Euthanize Old People to Save Money

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 15, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Earlier this month, I noted that a U.K. columnist was pushing euthanasia for the elderly as a way of saving national resources. That call has now been echoed by a Belgian health-insurance official for one of the five mutual-fund companies that provide the country’s mandatory health- and disability-insurance policies. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

A Market in Human Kidneys Is a Bad Idea

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

It is sometimes said that desperate circumstances require desperate measures. But desperation can also lead to the exploitation of the vulnerable. Such would be the case if we created a market in live-donation human kidneys. Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
April 13, 2024
Discovery Institute}

Remaking the World, Past and Present

_{Marvin Olasky
April 13, 2024
Discovery Institute}

Andrew Wilson’s Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West (Crossway, 2023) has probably left dozens of historians groaning, Why didn’t I think of that? Wilson could have written one more bloviating account of how the WEIRD revolution — Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic — affected the world during the past 250 years. Instead, he concentrated on the one Read More ›

^{Nathan Lewis
April 11, 2024
Economics}

Zimbabwe’s Central Bank Starts Africa’s Path to a Gold Standard

_{Nathan Lewis
April 11, 2024
Economics}

This month, the Central Bank of Zimbabwe launched a new gold-based currency, the first gold-based currency from a government since Richard Nixon effectively ended the world gold standard system in 1971. As long as the Central Bank of Zimbabwe adheres to some important principles, and doesn't play politics, it should be fine. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
April 9, 2024
Economics}

The U.S. Has No Choice but to Undertake Radical Economic Change

_{Scott S. Powell
April 9, 2024
Economics}

Burdened with $34.5 trillion in national debt that is currently growing by $1 trillion every 100 days, the U.S. economy is headed for disaster. It falls on the next administration to change that trajectory while also introducing policies that increase and broaden economic growth and wealth creation for everyone. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 8, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

What Comes after Transgender? Doctor Amputates Man’s Healthy Fingers

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 8, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

I have long predicted that normalizing transgender surgeries would be followed eventually by doctors intentionally disabling patients with Body Identity Integrity Disorder (BIID). Well, here it comes. A doctor in Quebec "treated" a BIID patient by amputating two of his healthy fingers. Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
April 5, 2024
Homelessness}

Drugs and Homelessness

_{Marvin Olasky
April 5, 2024
Homelessness}

Last week we gave our third annual set of Zenger Prizes to ten journalists for articles or podcasts that emphasize good street-level reporting and a willingness to see that all human beings have value. One of the winners we announced is Sam Quinones, for an article he wrote in The Atlantic updating his acute analysis of America's drug crisis. Read More ›