Original Article The world should pay close attention to the Group of Eight summit this weekend in Russia because it will give us a good sense of our energy and environmental future. As this is the first year of full Russian membership in the elite club of industrialized democracies, this year’s summit is hosted by Russia, which has chosen the Read More ›
Don’t fall off your chair, but I’ve recently had to admit I was wrong about something. My list of the individuals whose thoughts form the top three most lamentable cultural influences in modern times needs to be amended. This realization, in turn, raises a question about the influence exerted by a larger group of people: Jews. My top three used Read More ›
This week Mayor Yuri Luzhkov is hosting Saudi prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz al Saud in Moscow. On Wednesday President Putin personally met with the prince and chose this particular meeting to announce to the world Russia’s response to the jihadists who murdered five Russian diplomatic workers last week in Iraq: “find and destroy”. Not many people in the world Read More ›
Will North Korea test-launch its Taepodong 2 missile? And if North Korea were to do so, what should be the U.S. response? Although earlier reports from Japan and South Korea discounted the possibility, a provocation of this magnitude is not out of step with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s regime. In 1998, it test-fired an earlier-generation missile, supposedly in Read More ›
This article, published by National Review, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: The most articulate and successful advocates of tax cuts in the last thirty years — George Gilder, Jack Kemp, Ronald Reagan, Wall Street Journal editorial page editors, and Steve Forbes among them — all argued for cuts to prompt higher economic growth. The rest of the article can be Read More ›
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW what it feels like to wander into a Salvador Dali painting, try attending a conference of transhumanists. Case in point: the symposium “Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights” hosted May 26-28 by the Stanford Law School. Transhumanism is a radical movement emanating from the universities that seeks to enhance human capacities via technology. The ultimate Read More ›
David Klinghoffer, a senior fellow in Discovery Institute’s program on Religion and Civic Life, and a frequent writer on other topics, including evolution, is a First Place winner of the prestigious Rockower Awards for journalism excellence, it has been announced. Founded in 1980 to encourage Jewish media to improve their publications and to promote high quality journalism by Jewish writers, Read More ›
In a New England Journal of Medicine article entitled “Intelligent Judging — Evolution in the Classroom and the Courtroom,” George J. Annas lavishes the Kitzmiller decision with praise. Ironically, Mr. Annas lauds some statements by Judge Jones which others have viewed as undermining the Judge’s credibility. For instance, Mr. Annas applauds the following proclamation of judicial superiority by Judge Jones: Read More ›