
Dr. John West is Vice President and a Senior Fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, where he also serves as Managing Director of the Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, which he co-founded with philosopher of science Stephen Meyer in 1996. His current research examines the impact of science and “scientism” on public policy and culture. His other areas of expertise include constitutional law, American government and institutions, and religion and politics.
Dr. West was previously an Associate Professor of Political Science at Seattle Pacific University where he chaired the Department of Political Science and Geography, and he has taught political science and history courses at California State University, San Bernardino and Azusa Pacific University. From 1986-1989, Dr. West served as Managing Editor of Public Research, Syndicated, which distributed essays on public affairs to more than 700 daily and weekly newspapers.
Dr. West has written or edited twelve books, including most recently the expanded edition of Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, The Magician's Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society, and Walt Disney and Live Action. Other books include:
- Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest
- The Politics of Revelation & Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation
- The Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics
- The Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Supplement I
- The Theology of Welfare
- The C.S. Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia
- Celebrating Middle Earth: The Lord of the Rings as a Defense of Western Civilization.
Additionally, Dr. West has directed and written several documentaries, including Revolutionary, Privileged Species, the award-winning Biology of the Second Reich and Human Zoos, Darwin’s Heretic, The War on Humans, The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism, and The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and Intelligent Design. He also helped produce the popular YouTube series, Science Uprising. Listed in Who’s Who in America, he has been interviewed by Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, and he has appeared on CNN, FoxNews, and C-SPAN.
Dr. West holds a PhD in Government from Claremont Graduate University and a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington. He is a recipient of several academic fellowships, including a Haynes Foundation Dissertation Grant, an Earhart Foundation Fellowship, a Richard Weaver Fellowship, and a Chevron Journalism/Economics Scholarship. Dr. West is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha (the national political science honor society) and Phi Beta Kappa.
Archives


When Medical Science Becomes Heartless: The Case of Joshua Smith

Tired of the Media Promoting Atheism in the Name of Science?

How Science Fueled the White Supremacist Mass Murderer in Buffalo, NY

Before the Third Reich: America’s Darwinist Eugenics Crusade

Do Non-Scientists Have Freedom to Question Darwinism?

Do Scientists Have Freedom to Question Darwinism?

Survival of the Fittest or Survival of the Statist?
Darwin's Real Legacy for Economics
Major Scandal: New York Times Reports CDC Withholding Massive Amounts of COVID-19 Data

The Human Cost of Coercive Science

In a Historic Moment, Many Religious Leaders Fail the Test of COVID-19

The Terrible Bargain: Prophetic Words from C. S. Lewis on Scientocracy

NIH Director Francis Collins Isn’t A National Treasure, He’s A National Disgrace

Francis Collins’ Rhetoric About the Unvaccinated is Anything but Christian

A Portentous Collapse

John West Interviewed about Seattle’s Untold Prohibition Against Discrimination Based On Political Ideology

Michael Behe: A Mousetrap for Darwin

The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism, Pt. 2

That Hideous Strength
C.S. Lewis's Prophetic Warning against the Abuse of Science
Science and Scientism in the Age of COVID-19

C. S. Lewis and Intelligent Design

African Genocide: The Horror of Scientific Racism

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea, Pt. 2

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea, Pt. 1

Darwin’s Corrosive Idea
Are Humans “A Plague on the Earth”?
John West and Michael Medved Talk Human Zoos and Racism
C.S. Lewis & Science: An Interview With Dr. John West, Part 1

The Dangers of Totalitarian Science: Pt. 2
The Dangers of Totalitarian Science: Pt. 1
