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^{Jay W. Richards
August 14, 2020
Economics}

Biden’s National Mask Mandate is Absurd and Despotic

_{Jay W. Richards
August 14, 2020
Economics}

The new Biden-Harris ticket is off to a despotic start. Biden, armed with his new running mate Kamala Harris, held a press briefing on Thursday in which he called for a nationwide mask mandate. Read More ›

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty
August 13, 2020
Economics}

Covid-19 Exposes the Roots of the Homeless Crisis in our Cities

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
August 13, 2020
Economics}

“The coronavirus has started to reveal some long standing truths about homelessness, about addiction, and about mental illness,” explains Christopher Rufo director of Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty. “For the past decade, policy makers have largely avoided these questions, or, largely been in denial about the causes of homelessness.” Read More ›

^{Jonathan Bartlett
August 10, 2020
Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

How to Teach and Hold Meetings in “Mixed Mode” in the COVID Era

_{Jonathan Bartlett
August 10, 2020
Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

^{Heather Zeiger
July 30, 2020
Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Technology}

Charges Reveal Extent of China-Sponsored Hacking in the West

_{Heather Zeiger
July 30, 2020
Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Technology}

What’s new about the most recent indictment is the acknowledgment that China is working with known cybercriminals. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
July 17, 2020
Economics}

Obscene federal ‘diversity training’ scam prospers — even under Trump

_{Christopher Rufo
July 17, 2020
Economics}

Critical race theory — the far-left academic discourse centered on the concepts of “whiteness,” “white fragility” and “white privilege” — is coursing through the federal government’s veins. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 6, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

The Deadly “Quality of Life” Ethic

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 6, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Something evil happened recently in Austin. Michael Hickson, a forty-six-year-old African-American man with quadriplegia and a serious brain injury, was refused treatment at St. David’s Hospital South Austin while ill with COVID-19. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
June 19, 2020
Economics}

Counsel of the Woke

_{Christopher Rufo
June 19, 2020
Economics}

America has reached an epistemological breaking point. Read More ›

^{Heather Zeiger
June 18, 2020
Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

The Age of the Wolf Warrior: China’s Post-Pandemic Strategy

_{Heather Zeiger
June 18, 2020
Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

^{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 ›

^{Michael J. Behe
June 13, 2020
Intelligent Design}

Viruses, COVID-19, and Evolution

_{Michael J. Behe
June 13, 2020
Intelligent Design}

In this online Zoom webinar, Dr. Behe reviews the biochemistry of viruses in general and COVID-19 in particular. He uses these topical examples to illustrate a fundamental principle: Darwinian and other unintelligent evolutionary mechanisms can change life marginally, in ways that are medically important, yet they cannot explain life’s complex structure. Rather, the elegant molecular structures of life required purposeful Read More ›