George Gilder vs. Milton Friedman on the Function of Money
George Gilder states that free market icon Milton Friedman’s quantity theory of money “has been proven wrong,” arguing that a stable dollar as essential to a prosperous economy. Read More ›
George Gilder Joins Team Gold And Explains Where Friedman Went Wrong
My goodness! I honestly believe that today’s team of Classical monetary intellectuals is probably the best since about 1910. The long era of monetary ignorance, that characterized the 20th century, is finally passing. That team is strengthened now by the powerful intellect of George Gilder, who recently released a monograph entitled: The 21st Century Case for Gold: A New Information Theory of Money. Read More ›
Why “Gold in the 21st Century”?
Discovery Sr. Fellow George F. Gilder delivered his monograph, Gold in the 21st Century, today at the Princeton Club in New York City. The book length paper was the product of the American Principles Project and represents a next step in George’s thinking on the issue of money as it changes in our time. His next book, Life After Google (working title), will incorporate his insights on gold into a discourse on fulfilling the Internet’s promise–and resolving its ailments. Read More ›
Gilder: Bitcoin “Puts the Power of Money Back into the Hands of its Users.”
At the New York Business Journal, read a re-cap of George Gilder’s fascinating talk on bitcoin at AlwaysOn’s OnFinance conference. Gilder explains why sees in bitcoin the potential to provide a “new infrastructure for the Internet”: bitcoin opens up new horizons for web-based payments, and could ultimately displace the heavy advertising that currently dominates web transactions. Read More ›
Halt turnover in school administration to improve education
By DI Senior Fellow Don Nielsen. Originally published in The Seattle Times.
ISSUES related to public education have a certain circularity about them. What seems to get fixed becomes unfixed. This happens time and time again.
Currently, we have the state Supreme Court directing our legislators to increase spending on education. We have the teachers union filing Initiative 1351 to mandate class-size reductions in all schools. Though well-intentioned, these players contribute to the fallacy that putting more money into our schools would reduce the dropout rates and eliminate the achievement gap. Read More ›
The Tang Problem
Materialism says that everything is an organized complexity of matter, a bottom up perspective on our world. Dembski uses Tang to describe the problem with this view: You can take orange juice and extract orange juice ‘solids’ (orange juice powder), but you can never fully recreate orange juice again; yet that is what materialism attempts to do.
Politics of Education Necessary for Reform
Discovery Institute’s site on our new book on education is up online now: Every School, by Donald P. Nielsen. Don is a successful technology businessman whose volunteer service included the Seattle School Board, where he was President. Read More ›
Lethal Ageism
By Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith. Originally published at First Things. A story out of Belgium vividly illustrates how our elderly are becoming personae non gratae in a society increasingly obsessed with avoiding difficulty. Francis and Anne are healthy and happily married octogenarians. Not wanting to live without each other, they plan to die together on their sixty-fourth anniversary. Rather than engaging suicide prevention, their children procured a doctor to euthanize them. Digging more deeply into the Daily Mail story, we can glean that there’s more to this case than the couple’s fear of widowhood: <blockquote<John Paul said the double euthanasia of his parents was the ‘best solution’. ‘If one of them should die, who would remain would Read More ›
Chapman Center (I Blush) Opens at Discovery Institute
Believe it or not, having a luncheon in my honor Monday was a bit like getting married; it was lots of fun, but a surprisingly tense occasion. Before 170 guests at Seattle’s Harbor Club, Discovery’s President Steve Buri and other colleagues formally announced the new “Chapman Center on Citizen Leadership.” Read More ›
Welcome to the New Discovery.org
Discovery Institute is excited to announce the launch of the brand new Discovery.org! As you can see, we have been very busy working on new and efficient ways to communicate our message on the web. We hope that you find our new site easy to use. Thanks so much for your support and we hope you like our new site as much as we do! As you explore the site, you will notice a lot of changes. Here are a couple of highlights we wanted to make sure you noticed: Located on the Discovery Institute home page, this news feed will bring you the latest of the most important information from all of our different programs. The content featured in Read More ›
What is the Impact of Raising Taxes on the Wealthy?
In this short clip bestselling author and influential thinker George Gilder discusses the effects of raising taxes on the wealthy. Although this is commonly pointed to as a solution for America’s economic problems, you may be surprised by what this policy decision results in. In his new book Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Read More ›
The War on Humans: Q&A with Wesley J. Smith and John West
On this episode of ID The Future, we’re featuring clips of questions and answers with Wesley J. Smith and John West from the premiere of The War on Humans documentary. Smith and West briefly answer questions about the threat of the fringe element of the radical animal rights movement; the advance of animal rights proponents political agenda; and the regulatory process that is Read More ›