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June 5, 2019
Intelligent Design}

Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture Launches Provocative New YouTube Series Titled “Science Uprising”

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June 5, 2019
Intelligent Design}

“This is unlike any film project we’ve done before,” said Discovery Institute vice president John. G. West. “Science Uprising directly confronts the false views of science held by the growing number of science popularizers like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye.” The episodes are 6-8 minutes long each and address issues such as the existence of an immaterial mind, the Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
June 1, 2019}

Far More Than a Culture War Rages in America

_{Scott S. Powell
June 1, 2019}

America’s two greatest presidents, Washington and Lincoln, both believed that the ultimate threat to the United States wouldn’t come from abroad in the form of a foreign enemy but rather from within. In his Farewell Address, Washington warned of the dangers of “party passion,” and the “disposition to retaliate… [giving] ambitious, corrupted or deluded citizens… facility to betray, or sacrifice the interests of their own country…sometimes even with popularity…” Lincoln said, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” On another occasion he said, “…if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher.” Read More ›

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May 24, 2019
Economics}

Christopher Rufo on Fox News

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May 24, 2019
Economics}

Chris Rufo was featured in a Fox News piece this week on Seattle’s Homeless Crisis and why locals seem to be reaching a breaking point with the city’s lax or non-existent enforcement policies.

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May 24, 2019
Human Exceptionalism}

Smith a Hit in Poland

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May 24, 2019
Human Exceptionalism}

Discovery Senior Fellow Wesley Smith’s book, The Culture of Death, has now been translated into Polish and was the center of attention at his addresses this week to a conference on bioethics and to another gathering of 1000 doctors in Krakow. Wesley was interviewed by at least three print media, featured in a book review and hosted on TV and Read More ›

Computer chip with chinese flag, can china spy on united states. 3d conceptual illustration

^{George Gilder
May 20, 2019
Economics, Technology}

Huawei Is an Asset, Not a Threat

_{George Gilder
May 20, 2019
Economics, Technology}

Among the world’s most inspiring business voices is Ren Zhengfei, founder-philosopher of Huawei, the disruptive and now condemned Chinese telecom-equipment company. Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
May 16, 2019
Foreign Policy}

The Best Brexit Strategy is to Leave First, and Then Deal

_{Stephen C. Meyer
May 16, 2019
Foreign Policy}

Last month, the European Union’s Council of Ministers voted to allow Britain another extension in its Brexit deliberations. Despite Prime Minister Theresa May’s “success” in negotiating this extension, her Conservative Party recently experienced massive losses in local council elections with more than 1,300 Conservative councillors losing their seats. Since then, May’s party has tanked further in opinion polls. One recent poll has only 11 percent of the electorate supporting Conservative candidates in the upcoming May 23 elections for the European Parliament. Three years after voting to leave the European Union (EU), British voters must now suffer the indignity of voting to send representatives to a body they no longer wish to represent them. Read More ›

^{Bailey Takacs
May 16, 2019
Education}

Students and Parents Badly Hurt by the Legislature

_{Bailey Takacs
May 16, 2019
Education}

The 2019 legislature missed out on a big opportunity this year. Instead of working to reform how our schools operate, the legislature took a step backwards by undoing much of the good work that was done in response to the McCleary court ruling just two years ago. Read More ›

^{George Gilder and Steve Forbes
May 13, 2019
Economics, Technology}

The Creativity of Capitalism and the Post-Google Era

_{George Gilder and Steve Forbes
May 13, 2019
Economics, Technology}

Discovery co-founder George Gilder sat down with Steve Forbes on Forbes’s podcast What’s Ahead. There are not many minds that have been able to predict what’s ahead quite like Gilder who has proven to be a true visionary in economics and tech. In this conversation with Forbes, Gilder discusses his new book Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
May 10, 2019
Economics}

How the U.S. Can Solve the Current Trade Tariff Impasse With China

_{Scott S. Powell
May 10, 2019
Economics}

Trade talks between the U.S. and China have hit an impasse, but there is surprising bipartisan support for the Trump administration to stay the course on what will be a long process to resolve the full range of trade problems specific to China. Success on this first round of trade negotiations in the form of ending the tariff penalties that are at the heart of a year-old trade war, with further reduction and even elimination of tariffs on as many categories as possible, should actually be attainable in the near term. Future rounds of trade talks to find remedies for China’s intellectual property and trademark theft, national security threats, and forced technology transfer from American companies doing business in China will be far more problematic. China is already feeling the pain of our tariffs, just as American farmers are feeling the pain of their retaliatory tariffs against U.S. agricultural products. Both sides benefit from more trade with minimal tariffs that come naturally because of comparative advantage — a theory that has worked consistently since David Ricardo developed it in 1817. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
May 6, 2019
Economics}

How Seattle’s Elite Brushes Off Violent Homeless Crime

_{Christopher Rufo
May 6, 2019
Economics}

A year ago, in Seattle, a man living in a city-funded homeless encampment raped a woman in the bathroom of a Volkswagen dealership in the city’s Ballard neighborhood, according to the victim and law enforcers. Christopher Teel had arrived from Texas as a transient and was evading at least one active warrant, but the city-sanctioned encampment welcomed him without conducting a criminal-background check. The story caused a sensation, with wide media coverage and public demands for increased security measures, but the woman, Lindsey, remained silent, and her identity was kept secret. Nearly a year later, Lindsey contacted me. Read More ›