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Animal Rights: A Primer

This article, published by Catholic Culture, provides quotes from an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: In its April issue, Catholic World Report published a fascinating interview with Wesley J. Smith, a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute. The rest of the article can be found here.

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Ecocide: A Crime Against Peace?

Environmentalism is growing increasingly antihuman. Having left Teddy Roosevelt-style conservation and Earth Day consciousness-raising behind, the cutting edge of the movement is pursuing utopian “save the planet” agendas while angrily castigating mankind for supposedly sucking the life out of Gaia. Such environmental misanthropy used to be confined to the fringe. For more than three decades proponents of Deep Ecology have Read More ›

The Constitutionality and Pedagogical Benefits of Teaching Evolution Scientifically

This article appears in the legal journal University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. IV(1):204-277 (Fall, 2009), published by University of St. Thomas School of Law. Click here for a PDF of the full article. Abstract: The inquiry method of teaching science stresses that students should understand not just scientific content, but also the processes of Read More ›

Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem

Jay Richards presents a new approach to capitalism, revealing how it’s fully consistent with Jesus’s teachings and the Christian tradition—and our best bet for renewed economic vigor. Money, Greed, and God exposes eight myths about capitalism—including the notion that capitalism is based on greed—and demonstrates that a good Christian can be a good capitalist.

The Real “Hurt Locker”

President of Discovery Institute, Bruce Chapman, interviews Koshin Mohamed, an American Combat Engineer in Iraq & Afghanistan. Mohamed gives his existential commentary on the happenings on the ground.

FCC Should Focus on Spurring Investment, Not More Regulation

An open Internet where broadband providers do not block access to websites or discriminate between content or applications isn’t a vision. It’s a description of the unregulated Internet we already enjoy today. Those in Washington, D.C., who want to change it could stymie it instead and damage the economy. The movement to shield innovative, computer-enhanced communications services from stifling legacy Read More ›

Let’s Build Transport System on Common Ground

Fueled by gas tax increases and voter approval of Sound Transit’s second phase, the red cones are out for $8 billion in transportation-related construction — the most in state history. In a dreary economy, you would think that would be cause for political consensus on how to keep this job-creating monster well fed. Instead there is a nasty aftertaste from Read More ›

Citizen Slade

This article, published by the Puget Sound Business Journal, is about and quotes Slade Gorton of Discovery Institute: “When you get old, that’s where you are. Pretty soon I’m not a politician any more. I’m a statesman, just by the passage of time,” said Gorton, who is 82 and is the recipient of this year’s prestigious First Citizen Award from Read More ›

Changing the Channel

This article, published by The Economist, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: In 1990 George Gilder, an American writer, claimed that by the end of the 20th century traditional television would be extinct because technology would enable consumers to track down programmes that catered to their particular interests. The rest of the article can be found here.

Veganism is Murder, Too

This article, published by the Washington Times, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: “You are not dealing with people who want to reach accommodation with the agricultural industry about what is proper animal husbandry,” Wesley Smith, author of the 2010 book “A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Read More ›