David Klinghoffer

_{Senior Fellow and Editor, Science and Culture Today}

David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of seven books including Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome and The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy. A former senior editor at National Review, he has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1987. Born in Santa Monica, CA, he lives on Mercer Island, WA.

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John West on Jeremy Boreing Show, Today at 2 PM: Birthright Citizenship and America 250

_{David Klinghoffer
July 1, 2026}

The Jeremy Boreing Show is smart, provocative, and has its head screwed on straight — somewhat of a rarity today.

West, Boreing, Metaxas on the Woke Right Versus the Character of the Founders

_{David Klinghoffer
July 1, 2026}

It’s surprising that no definite name has yet attached itself to this poisonous brew.

Celebrate America 250 — With the Science of the American Founding

_{David Klinghoffer
June 30, 2026}

If you are really short on time, all these themes are compressed into in an effective image, above, that you can click on, read, and share through social media.

The Beauty Enigma: It “Seems to Be Reaching Out to Us”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 26, 2026}

The beauty of the cosmos and of nature generally can't be explained in materialist terms. Or more positively, they prompt an inference to design.

An Unusual Story of Everything Review from the UK

_{David Klinghoffer
June 22, 2026}

Senior features writer Peter Stanford at The Telegraph seems excited about the documentary almost despite himself.

Real Star of the World Cup: The Human Foot

_{David Klinghoffer
June 20, 2026}

In few sports, perhaps, does the foot stand out more. Emily Reeves offers an appreciation.

Hope from Science and New Polling on America’s Creed

_{David Klinghoffer
June 19, 2026}

John West discussed the meaning of equality, enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, when it’s obvious that individual humans are not all equally gifted.

Michael Egnor: Three Atheist Scientists Walk into a Book

_{David Klinghoffer
June 18, 2026}

In the absence of free will, “morality” can make no claims about anything. It's only an illusion projected by the meatware of our brains.

Spielberg’s Latest Is E.T. Without the Charm

_{David Klinghoffer
June 15, 2026}

Of the two characters in the film whom Steven Spielberg presents to us as the most compassionate and wise, one is a Catholic nun.

For Extraterrestrial Life, All Credit to a Creator

_{David Klinghoffer
June 10, 2026}

As Casey Luskin reminds us, technology-using aliens would — by the intent of the cosmic design — need to live on a planet like ours with a physiology like ours.

If You Care About Faith, Bring on the Aliens, Mr. Spielberg!

_{David Klinghoffer
June 9, 2026}

Luskin: "If alien life does exist, and if it looks or works even remotely like human biology, then it did not arise by blind evolution."

Science Isn’t God, but It Does Point to God

_{David Klinghoffer
June 8, 2026}

As you are driving on Interstate 5 just north of downtown Seattle, a home with purple floor-to-ceiling windows stands out prominently.

The Physics of Alien Life Would Necessitate Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
June 2, 2026}

Anyone imagining alien biology, anywhere across the universe, even if it takes unexpected forms, would have to include this expectation.

Ben Carson, John West: Human Equality in a Neurosurgeon’s View

_{David Klinghoffer
June 1, 2026}

You could draw a comparison to looking under the hood of your car, versus looking under the hood of mine.

In Seattle, Socialism Is the Flip Side of a Faulty Evolutionary Theory

_{David Klinghoffer
May 29, 2026}

Mayor Katie’s father is David Sloan Wilson, an esteemed evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University.

Debating the Declaration: John West on Science in the American Founding

_{David Klinghoffer
May 13, 2026}

Even non-Christian Founders like Benjamin Franklin thought about the evidence for intelligent design. Franklin studied it as part of his private liturgy.

John West: The Science of the American Founding Has Been Vindicated

_{David Klinghoffer
May 11, 2026}

On display at the National Archives, the Declaration’s ink has faded from past exposure to sunlight. But its truths haven’t faded.

Luskin: Alien Life Would Challenge Evolution, Not Religion

_{David Klinghoffer
May 10, 2026}

A theme in social media chatter has been that the disclosure will challenge religious beliefs, and that it may be a “psyop” directed against Christian faith.

What Would Aliens, if They Exist, Look Like? Like Us, or Like Jellyfish?

_{David Klinghoffer
May 7, 2026}

According to celebrity scientific atheist Neil deGrass Tyson, ETs would look nothing like us, because there is no reason they would.

The Science of Theism as a Healing Salve

_{David Klinghoffer
May 7, 2026}

One reason I’m grateful for it is that the film makes a scientific case for theism of a kind that unites. It comes at an important moment for that.