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Wesley J. Smith
September 6, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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‘Nonmedical’ Assisted Suicide This Way Comes

Wesley J. Smith
September 6, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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Certain strains of the euthanasia-advocacy movement believe doctors don't need to be involved when someone wants to die. For example, the fanatics of Final Exit Network have taught people how to kill themselves, with a couple convicted of assisting via helium. Read More ›
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Two boys and girl use their phones during school breack. Cute boys sitting on the bench and play online games
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Keri D. Ingraham and Peter Biles
September 6, 2024
Education
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Smartphones Are Killing Kids’ Ability to Concentrate

Keri D. Ingraham and Peter Biles
September 6, 2024
Education
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With K-12 schools back in session across the nation, millions of students are adjusting to a new learning environment — a cellphone-free classroom or, in some cases, a phone-free school day. Lawmakers in several states are pushing for such restrictions. Read More ›
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Matthew Desmond discusses his book, "Poverty, By America," with Frederick Wherry at the 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival, August 12. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.
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Marvin Olasky
September 6, 2024
Homelessness
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Dickensian Non-Fiction: Reviewing Desmond’s “Evicted”

Marvin Olasky
September 6, 2024
Homelessness
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The academic who’s gained the biggest rewards for writing about homelessness is Harvard and Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond. Many reviewers loved the way Evicted reads like fiction. The comparisons with fiction raise crucial questions: How much of Evicted is fact and how much, if not exactly fiction, is interpretation? Read More ›
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An IT expert uses an EEG headset and machine learning technology to upload his brain into a computer, aiming for immortality. This scene captures a computer scientist developing an AI experiment
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Wesley J. Smith
September 4, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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Why Transhumanism Is Unrealistic and Immoral

Wesley J. Smith
September 4, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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In 2016, transhumanism proselytizer Zoltan Istvan ran for president promising to defeat death while touring the country in a bus redesigned to look like a coffin. It was a great gimmick that made him, perhaps, the most famous transhumanist in the world. But his recent piece in Merion West “When We’re Overly Optimistic about the Pace of Life Extension Research” took a dark and disturbing turn. Read More ›
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Landscape with Milky way galaxy. Earth and Aurora view from space with Milky way galaxy. (Elements of this image furnished by NASA)
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Guillermo Gonzalez
September 4, 2024
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Guillermo Gonzalez on 20th Anniversary Edition of The Privileged Planet

Guillermo Gonzalez
September 4, 2024
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In 2004, Dr. Jay Richards and Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez published a bold hypothesis: not only is Planet Earth well-suited for advanced life like ourselves, it’s also finely tuned for scientific discovery. Materialists call it a cosmic coincidence, but the array of evidence Richards and Gonzalez marshal in support of their argument suggests otherwise. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid sits down with Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez to discuss his newly revised, rewritten, and updated twentieth anniversary edition of The Privileged Planet. Read More ›
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Old and worn work gloves on large American flag - Labor day background
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Scott S. Powell
September 3, 2024
Economics
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Labor Day Celebrates American Exceptionalism

Scott S. Powell
September 3, 2024
Economics
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Other than punctuating the end of summer, Labor Day has for many lacked meaning associated with other holidays. Properly understood, it is the holiday that celebrates not only labor, but also the ideas, job creators, and institutions central to the flourishing of the United States and its people. Read More ›
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Jay W. Richards
September 2, 2024
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Jay Richards on New Expanded Edition of The Privileged Planet

Jay W. Richards
September 2, 2024
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In 2004, Dr. Jay Richards and Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez published a bold hypothesis: not only is Planet Earth well-suited for advanced life like ourselves, it's also finely tuned for scientific discovery. Materialists put this down to cosmic coincidence, but the array of evidence Richards and Gonzalez marshal in support of their argument suggests otherwise. On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with Dr. Jay Richards about his work on a revised, rewritten, and updated 20th anniversary edition of The Privileged Planet. Read More ›