
Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the Executive Editor of The Stream.
Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012); The Human Advantage; Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; The Hobbit Party with Jonathan Witt; and Eat, Fast, Feast. His most recent book, with Douglas Axe and William Briggs, is The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a Catastrophe.
Richards is also executive producer of several documentaries, including The Call of the Entrepreneur, The Birth of Freedom, and Effective Stewardship (Acton Media and Zondervan, 2009). He has been featured in several television-broadcast documentaries, including The Call of the Entrepreneur, The Case for a Creator, The Wonder of Soil, and The Privileged Planet, based on his book, The Privileged Planet, with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez.
Richards' articles and essays have been published in The Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Washington Post, Forbes, National Review Online, Investor's Business Daily, Washington Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Huffington Post, The Federalist, The American Spectator, The Daily Caller, The Imaginative Conservative and many other publications. His topics range from culture, economics, and public policy to natural science, technology, and the environment. He has appeared on many national radio and TV programs, including Larry King Live; and he has lectured worldwide on a variety of subjects, including to Members of the US Congress.
Richards has a Ph.D., with honors, in philosophy and theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. He also has an M.Div. (Master of Divinity), a Th.M. (Master of Theology), and a B.A. with majors in Political Science and Religion. He lives with his family in the Washington DC Metro area.
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Jay Richards Addresses Whether AI Machines Will Replace Most Human Workers

Jay Richards on the Art of Answering Theistic Evolutionists

Survival of the Fittest or Survival of the Statist?
Darwin's Real Legacy for Economics
Walter Myers COSM 2021 Interview

U.S. Military Uses Religious Test Against Service Members To Enforce Vaccine Mandate
The military is denying requests for religious exemptions because officials disagree with the theological views of service members.
C. S. Lewis and the Argument from Reason

Jay Richards Dismantles Carl Sagan’s Passive Theist

Jay Richards Talks God, Carl Sagan, and Word Games

Jay Richards: Before Carl Sagan Said It, Science Debunked It

Easter: Let’s Feast!

Is ID Bad Theology? No, but the Objection Is

The Price of Panic

George Gilder, Wealth & Poverty 40 Years Later

Bringing ACES Vehicle Technology to the Puget Sound Region
Jay Richards Interviews Bruce Agnew at COSM
Biden’s National Mask Mandate is Absurd and Despotic

Biden’s National Mask Mandate is Absurd and Despotic

Why Did Americans Agree to a National Lockdown?

New Cosmos Series Preaches the Religion of Materialism

Why Does the Vatican Need Microsoft?
Should the Church really partner with IBM and Microsoft to make pronouncements on tech regulation?When giant corporate actors like IBM and Microsoft promote “transparency and compliance with ethical principles?”, we run the risk that they are helping to craft regulations that hinder future competitors (“regulatory capture”). Rather than partner with them in making statements, the Church should stay clear.

Jay Richards on Eat, Fast, Feast and Human Design

Will Self-Driving Cars Change Moral Decision-Making?
It’s time to separate science fact from science fiction about self-driving carsIrish playwright John Waters warns of a time when we might have to grant moral discretion to computer algorithms, just as Christians now grant to the all-knowing but often inscrutable decrees of God. Not likely.

Phillip E. Johnson: A Lucky Ice Storm

Jay Richards at COSM Talks Kurzweil and Strong AI

If the Mind Is Immaterial, Is Human Cloning Impossible?
I agree with Mike Egnor that the mind is immaterial but I don’t think human cloning is impossibleThere are, of course, empirical implications of both the materialist and non-materialist understanding of the human mind. But the success of human cloning won’t weigh on the question one way or the other.

Students, Don’t Let Smart Machines Disrupt Your Future
Three ways you can avoid life in Mom’s basement and the job pouring coffeeAt first sight, the number of options might seem bewildering. The key question is: Will you ignore the coming job disruption, fear it, or treat it as an opportunity?
Jay Richards on How Materialism Dismantles Itself, and the Self
Perfect Eclipses: Coincidence or Conspiracy?

New Evangelical Statement on AI is Balanced and Well-Informed
The signers are clearly (and rightly) skeptical that computers can become conscious moral agentsToo much of the debate over AI is dictated by prior metaphysical commitments that are rarely examined. This Evangelical Statement is a welcome contrast because it makes the theological issues explicit.

Universal Basic Income? Fear of AI Fuels a New Argument for Socialism

Universal Basic Income? Fear of AI Fuels Bad Economics
If new technology led to mass permanent unemployment, history would be an endless saga of expanding joblessnessAlthough the coming shift will be abrupt, new technologies enable us to focus, as economists would put it, on our comparative advantage over machines.

That Robot Is Not Self-Aware
The way the media cover AI, you'd almost think they had invented being hopelessly naïveRob Crowther Debriefs Jay Richards on the Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

A Short Argument Against the Materialist Account of the Mind
You can simply picture yourself eating a chocolate ice cream sundae.
Don’t Fear the Robots; Fear the Robot Philosophers
Trump Calls for a Reform of Perverse Welfare System. Media (Mostly) Ignore It

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2017: Perfect Eclipse, Coincidence or Conspiracy?

Perfect Eclipses: Coincidence or Conspiracy?

Don’t Miss the Solar Eclipse! (Unless You Are Ill, or Trapped in a Dungeon)
Heading into Today’s March, Here’s When to Doubt a Scientific “Consensus”
When Ideology Trumps Science: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Cosmos on Global Warming
