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April 15, 2020
Economics}

Bill Walton and Jay Richards Discuss the Economic and Health Crisis Created By COVID-19

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April 15, 2020
Economics}

Discovery Institute Senior Fellows Bill Walton and Jay Richards sat down with economist Steve Moore to discuss the health and economic crisis created by the coronavirus, and how to respond without all of our freedoms and civil liberties being trampled. They explore the many policy proposals driven by partisan politics, China’s role, the World Health Organization, and the left’s agenda. Read More ›

^{George Gilder
April 12, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Economics}

We Need Politicians in a Pandemic

_{George Gilder
April 12, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Economics}

The U.S. economy has been cratered less by the coronavirus than by the response to it — driven by the undemocratic idea that “science” should rule, even when much of the science and the data behind it remain in dispute. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
April 8, 2020
Economics}

Christopher Rufo with Tucker Carlson on Progressives’ Response to COVID-19

_{Christopher Rufo
April 8, 2020
Economics}

Director of Discovery Institute's Center on Wealth and Poverty Christopher Rufo guested on Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss how progressives are using the current COVID-19 pandemic for political gain. Read More ›

^{Heather Zeiger
April 5, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Foreign Policy}

The Dragon’s Deception

_{Heather Zeiger
April 5, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Foreign Policy}

U.S. Intelligence reports that China has misrepresented the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Social media was part of the strategy. An investigation by ProPublica and the UN shows that China has used thousands of Twitterbots, as well as hacked accounts, to applaud the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the heroes who stopped the coronavirus in China. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
April 4, 2020
Religion and Civic Life}

America Needs a New Declaration of Equal Justice Under the Law

_{Scott S. Powell
April 4, 2020
Religion and Civic Life}

In prior times of war, crisis, suffering, and loss of life from causes outside the U.S., Americans of both parties would pull together and focus on what can be done to quickly help, alleviate, and solve the problem. No longer. The COVID-19 crisis provides us a window into our national social and spiritual health, and what we see from much of America’s Left as expressed in the media and Democrat Party reveals a degree and strain of moral impoverishment we haven’t seen before. The COVID-19 crisis in America will pass as all such virus epidemics do, but an overriding issue and question that will remain for the American future is: Do we have sufficient courage and determination to successfully deal with the internal threats and contradictions that jeopardize the future viability of the United States and its Constitution? Read More ›

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^{Wesley J. Smith
April 2, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Coronavirus: Triage if Necessary, Health-Care Rationing, Never

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 2, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

With the raging coronavirus pandemic threatening millions with infection, people are rightly worried that we could face the awful circumstance in which there are insufficient life-saving medical resources available for all catastrophically ill patients needing care. If that dark day comes, decisions will literally have to be made as to who among the seriously ill will be given an optimal chance to fight for life under intensive medical care, and who may have to face a likely death, albeit under palliative care. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
March 27, 2020
Economics}

Growth Without Virtue

_{Christopher Rufo
March 27, 2020
Economics}

The coronavirus has stopped our society in its tracks. Businesses are closed, daily routines are on hold, and families are huddled together indoors. With the headlines screaming catastrophe — death, depression, and despair — the partisans have retreated to their familiar corners. The socialist Left is hoping to permanently expand the domain of the state, and the libertarian Right is hoping to engineer a quick bailout and return to the “free market.” Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
February 27, 2020
Economics}

Seattle Is Socialism’s Laboratory, and It’s Not Pretty

_{Christopher Rufo
February 27, 2020
Economics}

Democratic socialists are in the middle of a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party. Led by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and the “squad” of newly elected congresswomen, the hard-left coalition has laid out an ambitious agenda to transform the United States into a democratic socialist nation and Seattle has effectively become the nation’s laboratory for socialist policies. Read More ›

^{Chapman Center
February 15, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Discovery Institute}

The 2020 Census is Here and it’s Counting on You!

_{Chapman Center
February 15, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Discovery Institute}

In mid-March you will receive a letter from the US Government preparing you to reply to the 2020 Decennial Census. Therewith starts a large series of changes, from numbers for each state in the U.S. House of Representatives to the allocation of $1.5 Trillion in federal aid to states and localities. The 2020 Census also will give us a new Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
February 11, 2020
Economics}

Discovery Research Fellow Gale Pooley: Are We Doomed to Run Out of Resources?

_{Gale Pooley
February 11, 2020
Economics}

Are humans using up Earth’s scarce resources too quickly, posing an existential threat to humanity itself, as the chief villain in the popular movies “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame” believed? No, says Discovery Research Fellow Gale Pooley, an economist and associate professor of business management at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, who more fully explained his answer Monday, Sept. 9th at a luncheon on Maui sponsored by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. Pooley recently co-authored with Cato Institute senior policy analyst Marian L. Tupy a study, “The Simon Abundance Index: A New Way to Measure Availability of Resources,” showing that Earth’s resources are actually becoming more plentiful. Read More ›