This article, published by Scripps News, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards: To learn the real lowdown on how good motives can produce bad results, it helps to heed the writings and speeches of Jay Richards, a Princeton philosophy-theology Ph.D., author of “Money, Greed, and God,” and someone whose thoughts I recently took in at a speech at Colorado Read More ›
President Obama’s push for lame-duck Senate ratification of his New START arms treaty ran into a brick wall when Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, a GOP arms-treaty expert, announced that he opposes a floor vote before the new Congress is seated in January 2011, when a more extensive, detailed exploration of treaty issues can be conducted. Sen. John Kerry intends to press Read More ›
This article, published by National Review, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Eric Cantor, who is poised to become the House majority leader, reads voraciously. At one point, one of his staffers, Neil Bradley, recommended that he read George Gilder’s The Israel Test. Cantor replied that he had read it six months earlier. The rest of the article can be Read More ›
Link to Interview Senior Fellow George Gilder was featured on The Dennis Prager Show this morning, discussing his recent article in the Wall Street Journal on California and the environmental movement. Click on the link above to access the interview.
California officials acknowledged last Thursday that the state faces $20 billion deficits every year from now to 2016. At the same time, California’s state Treasurer entered bond markets to sell some $14 billion in “revenue anticipation notes” over the next two weeks. Worst of all, economic sanity lost out in what may have been the most important election on Nov. Read More ›
This article, published by Blogger News Network, references Bruce Chapman of Discovery Institute: Bruce Chapman of the Discovery Institute in Seattle has asked all the right questions about a recent Russian media report suggesting that Russian killers have been dispatched to the United States to execute a former Russian spy. The rest of the article can be found here.
This is a clip from the Nov. 9th book party hosted by Discovery Institute to celebrate the release of Dr. Steven Haywards monumental second volume on our fortieth President, The Age of Reagan. Following Haywards influential first volume chronicling the rise of conservatism, the second volume provides a complete narrative history of the Reagan presidency and its aftermath, covering both domestic and foreign policy. Read More ›
FrumForum is one of my favorite news and opinion venues, a model of intelligent and responsible conservatism, but the site has lately featured an essay series that illustrates the barriers to critical thought about an issue — Darwinian evolution — where skepticism should have a lot more traction on the Right than it actually does. Trying to explain why students at Read More ›
It is sometimes difficult for think tanks to connect political decisions to the research of their scholars — thus demonstrating the effectiveness of their efforts. Occasionally, however, the influence on the thinking of policy makers is undeniable. Witness, for example, the impact on President George W. Bush of Discovery Institute Senior Wesley J. Smith’s embryonic stem cell arguments. In his Read More ›
