covid-19

Homeless Soul Sleeping on the Streets
Christopher Rufo
March 24, 2020
Economics

Coronavirus Exposes How West Coast Progressives Failed the Homeless

Christopher Rufo
March 24, 2020
Economics
The coronavirus has changed almost every facet of American life. It has disrupted work routines, sent children home from school, and stress-tested the global supply chain. Medical researchers have warned for weeks that the new coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, is particularly dangerous to seniors and those with underlying health conditions. But in West Coast cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, public authorities are quickly discovering another potential tinderbox for infection: homeless encampments. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
March 24, 2020
Intelligent Design

To Ask “Where Is God in This Pandemic?” Is to Acknowledge that God Exists

Michael Egnor
March 24, 2020
Intelligent Design

Many ask: Where is God in this pandemic? This problem of theodicy is real, of course. We don’t always know or understand God’s ways. But we should understand that the question “Where is God in this pandemic?” presupposes God’s existence. To see how, consider a world in which He didn’t exist. Without a Creator, there would be no objective moral standard — Read More ›

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A single cherry tree on top of the rocky mountain
John G. West
March 20, 2020
Religion and Civic Life

Living Amid a Pandemic

John G. West
March 20, 2020
Religion and Civic Life

“Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.” C.S. Lewis It’s been a blissfully sunny week in Seattle — the kind of week Seattleites pine for after their gray and soggy winters. The official start of spring isn’t until today, but the cherry blossoms have already been out for a long time. Of course, it doesn’t Read More ›

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Heather Zeiger
March 19, 2020
Artificial Intelligence

Rewriting the History of COVID-19 in China

Heather Zeiger
March 19, 2020
Artificial Intelligence
As the world reels amid the COVID-19 (formerly, coronavirus) pandemic, the government of China wants us to know that 1) the virus didn’t originate in China and 2) President Xi stopped it in its tracks. And that we should all be thankful to him. Read More ›
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Photo by David Mark via Pixabay
Michael Egnor
March 19, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life

Upstairs into the Plague

Michael Egnor
March 19, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life

I was driving into work this morning and I hit the traffic jam. Every morning at about 6:30 am the traffic begins to back up on the highway leading into my medical center. It’s the morning shift — hundreds of nurses and clerks and aides and orderlies and housekeepers bleary-eyed and guzzling Starbucks and they wait to enter the parking Read More ›

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Steven J. Buri
March 18, 2020
Discovery Institute

Purpose and Hope in a Time of Turmoil

Steven J. Buri
March 18, 2020
Discovery Institute
During a recent staff meeting, two Discovery Institute staff members referenced C.S. Lewis’s essay, On Living in the Atomic Age. In this new era of coronavirus uncertainty, Lewis’s words offer comfort in knowing that the situation we face is not unique, nor unprecedented. The world has faced many plagues before, and wars, and suffering, and the economic uncertainty that often accompanies these periods. And — as has been the case throughout history — human beings face death, regardless of its cause. As I write this, a close friend is suffering severely (and bravely) from cancer. I feared for him, and prayed for him, long before coronavirus came on the scene. Now we fear another contagion en masse. Read More ›