human rights

Aerial view of a typical suburb in Australia

^{Caitlyn Axe
February 3, 2023
Homelessness}

San Diego Declares Housing A ‘Human Right’ Without A Plan To End Homelessness

_{Caitlyn Axe
February 3, 2023
Homelessness}

The government allows human lives to flourish when it acts to protect the pursuits of these things, not when it becomes the provider of them Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 21, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

UN Secretary General Betrays Human Rights by Attending Beijing Olympics

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 21, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

China is the world’s most vicious tyranny. But for all its wrongdoing, the country faces virtually no accountability. To the contrary, China is treated as a respected member of the international community, even granted the honor of hosting the Winter Olympics, which start on Feb. 4. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 29, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

The Fourth Reich

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 29, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and bioethicist, Wesley J. Smith, writing in The American Spectator warns of the dangers of the world turning a blind eye to China’s human rights abuses. Smith suggests that major corporations operating in China could bring pressure on Beijing that might ameliorate some of the worst instances of injustice. Read More ›

^{Jay W. Richards
August 15, 2016
Citizen Leadership, Economics}

Why Religious and Economic Freedom Stand and Fall Together

_{Jay W. Richards
August 15, 2016
Citizen Leadership, Economics}

Donald Trump has been courting evangelicals and other social conservatives of late, from his high-profile meeting with evangelical leaders in New York City to his selection of Indiana Governor Mike Pence for his running mate. The question on many minds is whether Trump is in the middle of a slow-moving come-to-conservatism moment, or just shrewdly courting a key Republican constituency Read More ›

Remembering Eleanore Roosevelt with Patrica Baillargeon

^{Bruce Chapman
May 16, 2016
Citizen Leadership}

Remembering Eleanor Roosevelt

_{Bruce Chapman
May 16, 2016
Citizen Leadership}

Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most consequential figures in American politics and international relations over the past century. Here, Discovery Institute Chairman Bruce Chapman interviews Mrs. Roosevelt’s former assistant, Patricia Baillargeon. Ms. Baillargeon gives a first-hand account of someone who sees Eleanor Roosevelt from the standpoint of history, but also from that of personal friendship.

MIAMI, USA - AUGUST 22, 2018: The New York Times newspaper in a hand. The New York Times is a popular American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 26, 2014
Human Exceptionalism}

The Paper of the Apes

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 26, 2014
Human Exceptionalism}

That the New York Times is a subversive cultural force can readily be seen in its unremitting assault on human exceptionalism, the philosophical backbone of Western civilization. In the old view, every human being has intrinsic dignity and equal moral worth. The United Nations’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) states that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
November 1, 2013
Human Exceptionalism}

The V-Word Is as Bad as the N-Word

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 1, 2013
Human Exceptionalism}

Using the word “vegetable” to describe people with a cognitive disability or impairment is profoundly dehumanizing. Read More ›

^{Discovery Institute
November 11, 2008
Human Exceptionalism}

What It Means to Be Human

_{Discovery Institute
November 11, 2008
Human Exceptionalism}

Discovery senior fellow Wesley J. Smith has returned to podcasting with What It Means to Be Human, a podcast about the many policies and proposals in bioethics, bioscience, and animal liberation that threaten the idea of human exceptionalism and undermine universal human rights: On this episode of What It Means to Be Human, Wesley J. Smith, senior fellow in Human Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 24, 2008
Human Exceptionalism}

Ecuador to Vote Sunday on Granting Rights to “Nature”!

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 24, 2008
Human Exceptionalism}

A radical environmental group called the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund is the brainchild behind a constitutional proposal, to be voted on Sunday, that would grant rights to “nature.” From the proposal: Persons and people have the fundamental rights guaranteed in this Constitution and in the international human rights instruments. Nature is subject to those rights given by this Constitution Read More ›

Legs of four teenagers sitting on a bricks wall

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 15, 2007
Human Exceptionalism}

Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 15, 2007
Human Exceptionalism}

If you are reading these words, you are a human being. That used to matter morally. Indeed, it was once deemed a self-evident truth that being a Homo Sapien created intrinsic moral value based simply and merely on being human — a principle sometimes called “human exceptionalism.” No more. Human exceptionalism is under unprecedented assault across a broad array of societal and intellectual fronts. Read More ›