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^{Bill Walton
June 17, 2020
Economics}

The Bill Walton Show: The True Human Costs of Government Imposed Lockdowns with Jim Agresti

_{Bill Walton
June 17, 2020
Economics}

Medical studies show that excessive stress and anxiety are among the most debilitating and deadly of all health hazards in the world. Beyond their obvious effects like suicide and substance abuse—these mental stressors are strongly related to and may trigger and inflame a host of ailments like high blood pressure, digestive disorders, heart conditions, infectious diseases, cancer, and pregnancy complications. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
June 16, 2020
Economics}

The State of CHAZ

_{Christopher Rufo
June 16, 2020
Economics}

The new state of CHAZ has evolved. Over the past week, left-wing protesters have transformed the surrounding neighborhood into the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), hoping to create a new political authority based on social-justice principles. Read More ›

protesters-at-brooklyn-bridge-stockpack-pexels-scaled

^{Donald Nielsen
June 15, 2020
Education}

The Source of the Problem

_{Donald Nielsen
June 15, 2020
Education}

Racism and police brutality are one source of the problems we are facing today, but those problems have been exacerbated by government’s failure to demand excellence in the performance of their employees and their leadership. Read More ›

^{Steve Forbes and Jay W. Richards
June 12, 2020
Economics, Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Technology}

Steve Forbes on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology

_{Steve Forbes and Jay W. Richards
June 12, 2020
Economics, Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Technology}

Jay Richards interviews Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media, regarding the future of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies, and the implications of the technologies for global money, global security, and internet architecture. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
June 11, 2020
Economics}

Anarchy in Seattle

_{Christopher Rufo
June 11, 2020
Economics}

Seattle’s hard-Left secessionist movement has claimed its first territory: six blocks in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Read More ›

^{Ann Gauger
June 9, 2020
Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design}

An Antidote to Despair

_{Ann Gauger
June 9, 2020
Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design}

I am a biologist, a worker in a field with a sorrowful history of categorizing human beings by race, arranging them in a false hierarchy. Read More ›

Black Lives Matter Protest in Auburn, WA

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 3, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Racism Violates Human Exceptionalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 3, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

As the country mourns the awful killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, we should reflect on the importance of human exceptionalism in fighting the poison of bigotry in all its forms. Read More ›

Street art - graffiti with facial mask on the wall during the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Warsaw, Poland

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Mask Hysteria

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

A few days ago, people in a Staten Island grocery store collectively shrieked in panicked terror because a fellow shopper was not wearing a surgical mask. Hysteria quickly ensued, with masked shoppers forming a threatening mob, as some howled, “GET OUT! GET OUT!” and driving the non-masked deviant away from the store. Watching the video on Twitter (of course!) was like seeing people in the Old Testament shrieking “Unclean! Unclean!” at an approaching leper. Read More ›

USA, VA, Arlington. Gravestones at Arlington National Cemetary. — Photo by Brent Bergherm/Danita Delimont on Adobe Stock

^{Scott S. Powell
May 25, 2020
Citizen Leadership}

Memorial Day: Connecting the Past with the Present

_{Scott S. Powell
May 25, 2020
Citizen Leadership}

The Civil War was America’s most costly war with some 360,222 Union and 258,000 Confederate lives lost. Many historians put the death toll higher, but regardless, the number of Civil War casualties exceeds the nation’s loss in all its other wars combined -- the two World Wars, the Korean and Vietnamese Wars and subsequent wars right up through conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Read More ›

^{Discovery Institute
May 21, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Wesley Smith Joins Laura Ingraham to Discuss the Dangers of Contact Tracing

_{Discovery Institute
May 21, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Wesley J. Smith, Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism, sat down with Laura Ingraham to express his concerns about using 'contact tracing' as a means of combatting COVID-19. Especially as technocrats continue to use the pandemic as a way to seize power. Read More ›