‘It’s the Bond Between All of Us That Holds Us Together’
A Moral Argument for Killer Robots: Why America’s Military Needs to Continue Development of Lethal AI
Leading Economist and Developer of Time-Prices, Dr. Gale Pooley Appointed as a Fellow of Discovery Institute
Seattle — Discovery Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Gale L. Pooley to serve as a fellow with the Institute’s Center on Wealth and Poverty. “Gale Pooley is the world leader in the most important movement in contemporary economics — based on the recognition that wealth is knowledge, money is time, and the only true prices are Read More ›
Discovery Institute Fellow Chrisopher Rufo Set to Release New Documentary Next Year on American Poverty
Discovery Institute research fellow Christopher F. Rufo is set to release his latest feature-length documentary, America Lost, which tells the story of life in three “forgotten American cities” — Youngstown, Ohio, Memphis, Tennessee, and Stockton, California. America Lost reveals the dramatic decline of the American interior through a combination of emotional personal stories and thoughtful conservative commentary. Filmmaker Christopher F. Rufo spent Read More ›
Internet Investment and Innovation Threatened By Appellate Courts’ Net Neutrality Ruling
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 15, 2016 Contact Information for Media Only Discovery Institute 206-202-0401 x107 [email protected] Internet Investment and Innovation Threatened By Appellate Courts’ Net Neutrality Ruling WASHINGTON, DC – “Allowing the FCC to rule the Internet like a public utility under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act will do nothing but produce a broadband shortage,” said George Gilder, bestselling technology author and Discovery Institute senior fellow. “This just creates new incentives for broadband providers to divert investment into advertising and content platforms or other countries,” Gilder added. By a 2-1 vote the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has upheld the net neutrality rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015. Discovery Institute senior fellow Read More ›
Education Reform Must Begin With the Legislature Says Former Seattle School Board President
FCC Threatens Investment and Innovation with Net Neutrality
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Information for Media Only Discovery Institute 202-558-7085 [email protected] Washington, DC – “Today’s party-line vote by the Federal Communications Commission to reverse three decades of bipartisan communications policy threatens to jeopardize investment and innovation in the network by opening the door to the possibility of pervasive regulation,” said Hance Haney the Director and Senior Fellow of the Read More ›
Action Alert: Contact South Dakota Senate Education Committee to Support SB 114
SB 114 Text The Facts about the South Dakota Academic Freedom Bill On Tuesday, February, 10, the South Dakota Senate Education Committee is scheduled to consider SB 114, an academic freedom bill to protect science teachers who want to help “students understand, analyze, critique, or review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered Read More ›
Revised Edition of Award Winning Bioethics Book, ‘Culture of Death,’ Coming in 2015
SEATTLE — Wesley J. Smith, director of Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism, has agreed with Encounter Books to revise and update his award winning 2001 book, Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America.
Read More ›