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Young couple sending their children to school

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November 7, 2023
Education

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School Choice Hypocrisy: Good for My Children, but Not Yours

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November 7, 2023
Education

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There are five major categories of people working to block school choice for others despite taking advantage of it themselves. The most hypocritical — those who send their own children to private schools as their wealth allows but don’t want others to have that opportunity. Read More ›

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November 7, 2023
Intelligent Design

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Origin of Life: Information

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November 7, 2023
Intelligent Design

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Life depends on information, but can unguided material processes produce the information needed for the first life? This episode of Long Story Short shows why unguided natural mechanisms can’t produce new biological information, and therefore can’t explain the origin of life. REFERENCES AND NOTES 1. Sara Walker & Paul Davies, The Algorithmic Origins of Life, 10 J. Royal Society Interface Read More ›

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November 6, 2023

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Jonathan Choe on the Crisis of our City Streets

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November 6, 2023

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Energy

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Reasonable Energy: Pragmatic Solutions to Our Energy Needs

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Energy

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Mark Mills, Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute, leads a discussion with Todd Myers, Director of the Washington Policy Center’s Center for the Environment, and Michael Shellenberger, Author of Apocalypse Never, about reasonable and pragmatic approaches to meeting future energy needs. Read More ›

^{William A. Dembski and The Center for Science and Culture
November 3, 2023
Intelligent Design

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The Backlash to The Design Inference

_{William A. Dembski and The Center for Science and Culture
November 3, 2023
Intelligent Design

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Mathematician and philosopher William Dembski discusses the backlash provoked by the original edition of his landmark book The Design Inference, which explored how we can detect intelligent design. A new expanded edition of the book has now been released, co-authored with computer scientist Winston Ewert. Find out more at https://www.discovery.org/b/the-desig….

Silhouette of terrorist holding rifle against burning tank

^{Scott S. Powell
November 2, 2023
Foreign Policy

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Weakness and Underestimating Enemies Invites War

_{Scott S. Powell
November 2, 2023
Foreign Policy

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The talk about whether the United States could prevail in a two-front war—against Russia in the European theater to defend Ukraine and against China in the Pacific theater to defend Taiwan—has suddenly been eclipsed. Read More ›

^{Bruce Chapman
November 1, 2023
Citizen Leadership

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Strange and Maybe Wonderful Case of a New Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

_{Bruce Chapman
November 1, 2023
Citizen Leadership

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It is now newsworthy (in the New York Times) that North Dakotans are in the process of building a $333 million Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. It is a private philanthropic venture not connected to the National Archives collection of presidential libraries that go back to the middle of the last century. Read More ›

^{The Center for Science and Culture
October 30, 2023
Intelligent Design

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Frightening Abuses of Science: A Conversation with Wesley J. Smith

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October 30, 2023
Intelligent Design

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Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. These are not horror stories playing at your local movie theater. They’re playing out in labs, hospitals, and institutes across America. On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with bioethicist Wesley J. Smith about frightening abuses of science being done in the name of progress. Read More ›

Rural Minnesota road with dramatic clouds at sundown

^{Marvin Olasky
October 27, 2023
Homelessness

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The Middle of the Country

_{Marvin Olasky
October 27, 2023
Homelessness

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In the U.S., half of all the homeless persons who sleep outside do so in California, and it seems that at least half the coverage of homelessness in national publications concerns California. Read More ›

^{Dr. Jeffrey Long and Andrew McDiarmid
October 25, 2023
Intelligent Design, Natural and Artificial Intelligence

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After Death: The Science Behind The Movie

_{Dr. Jeffrey Long and Andrew McDiarmid
October 25, 2023
Intelligent Design, Natural and Artificial Intelligence

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Is there life after death? Can science shed any light on this age-old question? And is the mind simply the workings of the brain, or is it something else? On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid chats with Dr. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncology physician and one of the scientists featured in the new Angel Studios feature Read More ›