Q&A: Is Attacking Business the Way to Speed Recovery?
Michael Medved answers questions after his talk on his new book The 5 Big Lies About American Business: Combating Smears Against the Free-Market Economy
Against All Gods: What’s Right and Wrong about the New Atheism
Widely considered a founder of the contemporary intelligent design (ID) scientific movement, law professor and author Phillip Johnson’s 1991 book Darwin on Trial convinced many thinkers that neo-Darwinian evolution was based more on the philosophy of naturalism than on the scientific evidence. Now, Johnson has teamed up with John Mark Reynolds to write Against All Gods: What’s Right and Wrong Read More ›
Illinois’ Incomplete Telecom Report Card
FULL REPORT (PDF) SUMMARY In 1985, the Illinois General Assembly declared that “competition should be pursued as a substitute for regulation,” delivering new technologies, improved service quality, choice among telecommunications providers and ultimately lower prices for consumers. The goal of the 1985 act, which was to open the market to competition, has been achieved, but not the task of ensuring Read More ›
Is Attacking Business the Way to Speed Recovery?
Michael Medved lectures on his new book 5 Big Lies About American Business. He discusses three lies in particular, the first being: capitalism is evil. Read More ›
Cap and Trade for the Internet
Under Chairman Julius Genachowski, Al Gore’s old friends at the Federal Communications Commission are out to reinvent the Internet. In the name of a bogus crisis in broadband deployment, the FCC is today lathering on an array of network stimuli and subsidies as part of a new “National Broadband Plan” that will transform this current font of U.S. economic growth Read More ›
When to Doubt a Scientific “Consensus”
A December 18 Washington Post poll, released on the final day of the ill-fated Copenhagen climate summit, reported “four in ten Americans now saying that they place little or no trust in what scientists have to say about the environment.” Nor is the poll an outlier. Several recent polls have found “climate change” skepticism rising faster than sea levels on Planet Read More ›
Animal Wrongs
This article, published by Frontpage Mag, contains an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: Sunstein’s views were decidedly out of the political mainstream, but they were typical of a movement that author Wesley Smith, a senior fellow in human rights and bioethics at the Discovery Institute, analyzes in his new book, A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Read More ›
Animal Rights Follow-Up
Like Jason Steorts, I am not sure where Matthew Scully and I disagree about the proper approach to animal rights. In my book, I criticized Scully for being overly emotional and anthropomorphic in his advocacy, and disagreed with his accusation made in Dominionthat research scientists have “lost all regard for their subjects,” reducing “laboratory animals to the level of microbes or cell Read More ›
What Do Darwinism and ‘Climate Change’ Have in Common?
Leslie Kaufman in the New York Times reports on budding initiatives in state legislatures and boards of education to encourage or require balance in classroom discussions of global warming. The point of the piece, though, is to connect the teaching of evolution to the climate change debate: Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some Read More ›
Connect the Dots Between Scientism and Government Spending
Left wing ideology, the pursuit of government grants and the stifling of scientific dissent work together to hobble progress, reduce freedom and raise costs. Slowly people are going to figure it out. Support the right to scientific dissent, therefore, or give another weapon to Leviathan. Unintentional assistance comes our way today from The New York Times. On its front page the Times reports Read More ›