Honorable members of the Texas State Board of Education, my name is J. Budziszewski. I am a full Professor in both the Department of Government and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. In my twenty-two years as a scholar of political philosophy, I have written six books and am a nationally recognized authority in my Read More ›
Critics of George Bush’s Iraq policy have bemused themselves with anti-war demonstrations and public opinion overseas, plus the pronouncements of France, Germany and Russia. They conclude that America has suffered diplomatic rejection by “the whole world.” The war is about to recruit new waves of terrorists, they say, and at last precipitate the downfall of the American “empire.” But while Read More ›
If Project Steve was meant to show that a considerable majority of the scientific community accepts a naturalistic conception of evolution, then the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) could have saved its energies — that fact was never in question. The more interesting question was whether any serious scientists reject a naturalistic conception of evolution — that fact has Read More ›
[Note: John Miller is the immediate past chairman of the board of directors at Discovery Institute. He left the Institute to take his position mentioned below.] From the In the Northwest column On a trip to Europe in more innocent times, four Seattle buddies walked wide-eyed through Amsterdam’s red light district. We made out the shapes of ladies of the Read More ›
Olympia, Washington, March 13: Proponents of enabling legislation to create charter schools in Washington State succeeded today in passing a supportive bill in the state senate, by a vote of 26 to 23. Three Democrats joined all but two Republicans on the winning side. When charter schools were first proposed in Washington in the mid-1990s, the idea was novel, but Read More ›
When the big-picture types at the Discovery Institute think about Seattle’s future, they see a subterranean, multi-modal transit center under Benaroya Hall. The dream is to connect light rail, commuter rail, monorail, buses and ferries at Second Avenue and University Street. Welcome to the Mid-Town Transit Hub. On the hub’s lowest level, commuters could catch Sounder trains traveling in the Read More ›
[Note: John Miller is the immediate past chairman of the board of directors at Discovery Institute. He left the Institute to take his position mentioned below.] Imagine an event akin to the fall of apartheid, a human-rights breakthrough that for millions of black Africans could mean an end to massacres, ethnic cleansing and enslavement by a despotic regime. Imagine, too, Read More ›
Original article From the Industry Wrapups column The Puget Sound Private Ferry Coalition is seeking federal and state funding for a pair of studies to help support the development of private-sector ferry systems in Puget Sound. Bruce Agnew, director of Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Project and a coalition founder, said one of the studies will look at how private ferries could Read More ›