Maritime Labor in the Pacific Northwest: A Historical Perspective
David Freiboth, Executive Secretary, King County Labor Council Read More ›
Washington State Ferries: An Overview
David Moseley, Assistant Secretary, Ferries Division, Washington State Department of Transportation Read More ›
Gilder Shames the Pessimists
This article, published by Globes, discusses Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Thank goodness for George Gilder, the technology guru who years ago predicted what is now happening in the world of telecommunications. He came all the long way from the US to tell us at the “Globes” Israel Business Conference what wonderful developments are taking place here, and how Read More ›
Social Muddle
The adjective that economist Friedrich Hayek famously called a “weasel word” is alive and well in the feel-good phrases social business, social justice and the social gospel. In all three of these phrases, the common weasel word sucks some of the essential meaning out of what it modifies by implying that business, justice, and the Christian Gospel are a-social, or even anti-social, until conjoined Read More ›
It’s easy to bash capitalism, but German film shows different reality
I have observed two recent events that seem to be unrelated. Yet, as I think about them, one has much to do with the other. On one hand, the news lately has been filled with stories about a large number of people congregating on Wall Street in New York City. Some refer to themselves as if they were a coherent group Read More ›
Official says safer Iraq is good investment for Wash.
This article, published by The Seattle University Spectator, discusses a presentation given at Discovery Institute: It was Hamod who kicked off the presentation at the Discovery Institute in Seattle on Wednesday. Currently, the top 10 states that export goods to Iraq are Texas, South Carolina, California, Arkansas, Alabama, Ohio, Louisiana, New York, Oregon and Georgia. The rest of the article Read More ›
Preachers confront ‘last taboo’: Condemning greed amid Great Recession
This article, published by the CNN Belief Blog, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay W. Richards: Consider the cause of the 2008 economic meltdown. Was it primarily the result of Wall Street greed? Jay W. Richards doesn’t think so. Richards is a senior fellow at the conservative think-tank the Discovery Institute and author of “Money, Greed and God: Why Capitalism Read More ›
George Gilder on “The Israel Test,” Obama, the Internet…and the Gays?
Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder had an interview with ReasonTV. Click here to access the YouTube video of the interview.
Should Christians be Socialists?
In “From Jesus’ socialism to capitalistic Christianity,” Gregory Paul argues that American Christians who defend the free economy are involved in a profound contradiction, since Jesus and Christianity are self-evidently socialistic. Let’s pass over his caricature of capitalism, since no one would defend the idea as he describes it, and get to the two big holes in his argument. The Read More ›
Obama vs. the 1980s
This article, published by The Wall Street Journal, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Mr. Gilder championed the then-emerging Silicon Valley paradigm. He quoted technologist Carver Mead: “We depend on the innovations of the citizens of a free economy to keep ahead of the bureaucrats and the people who make a living on control and planning. In the long Read More ›