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Marvin Olasky
August 9, 2024
Homelessness
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How Adverse Childhood Experiences Turn into Homelessness

Marvin Olasky
August 9, 2024
Homelessness
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Would you rather be rich or loved? Many of us might want to be both, but Rob Henderson, author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, understands what's most important: "For happiness, it's better to be poor and loved than rich and unloved." Read More ›
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Metaverse and kid concept, child using virtual reality headset in space adventure game. Little girl looking in futuristic VR glasses and having fun. Theme of technology, fantasy and playing people
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Doug Smith and Robert J. Marks II
August 8, 2024
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How to Rise Above Addictive Technologies to Find Real Freedom

Doug Smith and Robert J. Marks II
August 8, 2024
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a doctor holding a syringe ready to give a vaccine injection
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Richard Weikart
August 7, 2024
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Richard Weikart Reads From His New Book Unnatural Death

Richard Weikart
August 7, 2024
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On this episode, Dr. Richard Weikart reads selections from his new book Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing. Dr. Weikart is Emeritus Professor of History at California State University Stanislaus and a Senior Fellow with the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. He is author of From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion and The Death of Humanity. Dr. Weikart begins with a portion from the book’s Introduction, which sets the stage and defines some key terms used in the book. Weikart concludes with an excerpt from Chapter 3: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics, where he gets into the influence of Darwinism on eugenics ideology and how it shaped attitudes toward euthanasia and assisted suicide in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read More ›
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Richard Vigilante and George Gilder
August 7, 2024
Economics
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Israel: Leader of the Free World

Richard Vigilante and George Gilder
August 7, 2024
Economics
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For eight decades after the end of World War Two, America's proudest title was "Leader of the Free World." Today, that title properly belongs to Israel both on grounds of practical leadership and grasp of what it means to be a free people. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart
August 7, 2024
Discovery Institute
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Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing – An Interview with Dr. Richard Weikart

Richard Weikart
August 7, 2024
Discovery Institute
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If we believe there is no qualitative distinction between animals and humans, are we more likely to protect human life or devalue it? On this episode of ID The Future, host Eric Anderson talks to historian Dr. Richard Weikart about his latest book, Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing, now available from Discovery Institute Press. The book is Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith
August 7, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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‘Plant Philosophy’ Denigrates Human Uniqueness

Wesley J. Smith
August 7, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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Lately, as scientists unlock the complexity of plant biology, we are witnessing equivalent advocacy with regard to plants. The latest example of such radical anthropomorphizing comes to us in a long article just published in Aeon that discusses "plant philosophy." Read More ›
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The Bradley Center
August 6, 2024
Discovery Institute, Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Technology
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COSM Technology Summit 2024

The Bradley Center
August 6, 2024
Discovery Institute, Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Technology
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COSM 2024 will hail the New American Century: exploring a technological transformation and revival of our country and economy as redemptive and cosmic as its renewal of technology. Join us October 31 – November 1 in Bellevue, WA. Read More ›
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Eric Metaxas and John G. West
August 6, 2024
Intelligent Design
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Human Zoos: Socrates in the Studio with Dr. John West

Eric Metaxas and John G. West
August 6, 2024
Intelligent Design
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The day after his Socrates in the City event on C.S. Lewis and Scientism, The Discovery Institute’s Dr. John West sits down with Host Eric Metaxas to discuss his documentary Human Zoos: America’s Forgotten History of Scientific Racism. Human Zoos tells the shocking story of how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in the early Read More ›

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Richard Weikart
August 5, 2024
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Richard Weikart: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing

Richard Weikart
August 5, 2024
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If we believe there is no qualitative distinction between animals and humans, are we more likely to protect human life or devalue it? On this episode of ID The Future, host Eric Anderson talks to historian Dr. Richard Weikart about his latest book, Unnatural Death: Medicine's Descent From Healing to Killing, now available from Discovery Institute Press. The book is a wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide from Ancient Greece to today. How did we get to the point we are at today, and how do we turn the tide to promote the sanctity of human life? Tune in to find out. Read More ›