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United States Supreme Court Building in Washington DC, USA.
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 18, 2024
Homelessness
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SCOTUS Will Hear Arguments in Controversial Homelessness Case that Will Impact Cities Nationwide

Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 18, 2024
Homelessness
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As homelessness hits all-time highs across the country, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments next Monday about whether the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property are constitutional. The case will determine how cities nationwide are allowed to respond to the crisis of homelessness. Read More ›
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Brian Miller and Andrew McDiarmid
April 17, 2024
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How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

Brian Miller and Andrew McDiarmid
April 17, 2024
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You may already know about the mounting evidence from physics, chemistry, biology, and related fields that suggests our universe was designed for large multi-cellular beings like ourselves. But did you know there is also evidence that Earth is uniquely fit for human technology? Read More ›
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Man reading an e-book on the shore of a forest lake at sunset.
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Bruce Chapman
April 16, 2024
Citizen Leadership
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Published Today: The Conservative Environmentalist

Bruce Chapman
April 16, 2024
Citizen Leadership
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Published today is Benji Backer’s book on how government ties up sound conservation policy in red tape that immobilizes real reform. Benji is a University of Washington grad I was proud to have as a Chapman Fellow at Discovery Institute a few years back. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary and Casey Luskin
April 15, 2024
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How to Combat Censorship in Science

Denyse O’Leary and Casey Luskin
April 15, 2024
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Scientific censorship is on the rise. Governments are colluding with Big Tech to suppress unfavorable ideas. De-platforming and dismissal campaigns are all the rage. How do we prevent our society from slouching towards totalitarianism? On this ID The Future, host Casey Luskin welcomes science writer and journalist Denyse O'Leary to discuss today's forms of censorship, how it affects the intelligent design community, and most importantly, what we can do about it. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
April 15, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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Belgian Health-Fund President: Euthanize Old People to Save Money

Wesley J. Smith
April 15, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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Earlier this month, I noted that a U.K. columnist was pushing euthanasia for the elderly as a way of saving national resources. That call has now been echoed by a Belgian health-insurance official for one of the five mutual-fund companies that provide the country’s mandatory health- and disability-insurance policies. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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A Market in Human Kidneys Is a Bad Idea

Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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It is sometimes said that desperate circumstances require desperate measures. But desperation can also lead to the exploitation of the vulnerable. Such would be the case if we created a market in live-donation human kidneys. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
April 13, 2024
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Did Consciousness Evolve?

Michael Egnor
April 13, 2024
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On this ID The Future episode from the vault, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviews Bernardo Kastrup, a philosopher with a background in computer engineering, about consciousness, evolution, and intelligent design. Did consciousness evolve? What does the evidence suggest? And how do materialists deal with the seemingly immaterial reality that is consciousness? Read More ›
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Marvin Olasky
April 13, 2024
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Remaking the World, Past and Present

Marvin Olasky
April 13, 2024
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Andrew Wilson’s Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West (Crossway, 2023) has probably left dozens of historians groaning, Why didn’t I think of that? Wilson could have written one more bloviating account of how the WEIRD revolution — Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic — affected the world during the past 250 years. Instead, he concentrated on the one Read More ›