October 1988: Publication of Kathryn Lindskoog’s The C.S. Lewis Hoax. January, 1989: J. Stanley Mattson, a California public relations expert, launched a campaign to discredit The C.S. Lewis Hoax in order to defend Walter Hooper and Hooper’s claims about the authenticity of his posthumous C. S. Lewis literature. April 21, 1989: Stanley Mattson orchestrated a closed-door one-day trial of The Read More ›
Increasingly, it appears that the United States of America lacks a coherent foreign policy. Yes, there are exceptions. We do have a clear (and bi-partisan) policy on foreign trade, consisting primarily of promotion of free trade agreements and pursuit of violators of those agreements. But what is American policy on preventing nuclear non-proliferation? A recently published Defense Department report on Read More ›
If an established academic truth is challenged by new scientific insights, should authorities allow classroom discussion of such challenges? That was the question many people believe was placed on the national stage by the famous Scopes Trial on evolution in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925. Three-quarters of a century later, the questions are the same, only now the issue is whether Read More ›
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Scientists, attorneys and teachers who support intelligent design instead of naturalistic evolution presented their side of the debate at a day-long symposium Saturday. More than 350 people attended a national symposium called “Darwin, Design and Democracy: Teaching the Evidence in Science Education” at Rockhurst High School. It featured presentations by biochemist Dr. Michael Behe, biologist Dr. Read More ›
Congressional TestimonyTestimony of Bruce K. Chapman President of Discovery Institute Before the House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight Washington, D.C. February 29, 1996 On the 2000 Census Good morning, and Happy Leap Year, Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee. I am honored to be asked my opinion about the 2000 Census. Leap Year, indeed, is a Read More ›
What does an enlightened citizen believe about God at the end of the 20th century? The topic is of growing interest as the millennium approaches and the Baby Boom generation ages. Print and broadcast media have discovered a growing appetite for news about religion in all its manifestations, and they have been feeding and encouraging that appetite. Some deep anxiety Read More ›
There they were on C-Span, the Republican Congressional Leadership, all waggish smiles. The atmosphere in the Capitol Rotunda implied champagne and balloons. You would have thought they had just won the World Series, World War III or at least a national election. The “Contract with America” is vindicated, they announced. They were all hugging each other like, well, Democrats. It Read More ›
This time the national passenger rail system, Amtrak, really is heading for a train wreck. So badly in debt is the public corporation that the General Accounting Office (GAO) and a host of other observers see it as functionally bankrupt. Congress and the Clinton Administration have been warned repeatedly of the need to plan ahead for the kind of privatization Read More ›
We made up political buttons that said, “I am an Extreme Moderate.” Our antagonism to big government was genuine, but more, well, moderate than those of our friends and adversaries on the GOP right. Tender of years in the early 1960s, we at Advance magazine and, later, the Ripon Society seldom got much media attention, unless we were criticizing the Read More ›