FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Bret SwansonSenior Fellow(317) 663-0509 INDIANAPOLIS —”This week Indiana adopted the best communications law anywhere in the nation and took a bold leap into the 21st century,” said Discovery Institute senior fellow and Indiana resident Bret Swanson. “Amazingly, it’s already working. The bill was passed just Tuesday night, but already—just three days later—I have seen telecom crews Read More ›
Bruce Chapman: This is Bruce Chapman and I’m with George Gilder, whom I’ve known for decades. And George, in all the decades that I’ve known you, you’ve had a progression of interests from International Affairs and Defense, to Economics, certainly the whole issue of feminism that came up in the Seventies and the book Sexual Suicide and then Men in Marriage that came out Read More ›
Petitions have only begun to be gathered to qualify the Missouri Stem Cell and Cures Initiative for November’s ballot, and already the controversy is white hot. Proponents contend that their proposal would merely permit embryonic stem cell research using a technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer, while also banning human cloning. But opponents insist that the process is human Read More ›
The Winter 2006 issue of Discovery Institute Views is now available. Click here to download a PDF version of this informative newsletter. Also, you can view the Summer 2005 issue here.
Click here to read the article as a PDF file. (7.28 MB) Does nature provide evidence of a cosmic maker? The answer of the religious skeptic is obvious: No. An essay in Scientific American communicates this view sarcastically, poking fun at a Georgia public-school textbook sticker warning students that evolution is just a theory. Confident that neo-Darwinism provides a thoroughly Read More ›
President Bush is in India this week for the first time, a historic trip that is long overdue. Although terrorism, trade and technology will be major discussion topics with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the rise of China cannot be far from the minds of both men and their respective defense establishments. China’s rapid economic rise and military buildup pose Read More ›
Central Puget Sound One Step Closer to Joint Highway and Transit Plan When it comes to tackling transportation challenges, we at the Cascadia Center have long advocated regional cooperation. And with its rapidly rising population and worsening congestion, Central Puget Sound is especially in need of a coordinated solution—similar to what has already worked in Vancouver, B.C., Denver, and San Read More ›
Ten years ago, Washington gave us the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The law’s complex and intrusive implementation by the Federal Communications Commission and the 51 state utility commissions resulted in the $3 trillion technology crash of 2000-02 and has now plunged the U.S. to 16th in the world in residential broadband rankings. Yet for Hoosiers, hope abounds. Indiana is possibly Read More ›