surveillance state

^{Debra J. Saunders
November 23, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

The Administrative State Can Put a Bug in Your Phone

_{Debra J. Saunders
November 23, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

In the age of cellphones and the internet, consumers often face a simple choice: convenience or privacy? Do we let Big Tech have access to our private communications and free email accounts because it's so easy? Once you've said yes — and who among us has not? — it's not a stretch to think that Big Data already has almost all your information, so why get picky at the next juncture? 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 ›

In vitro fertilisation, IVF macro concept — Photo by Dmytro S on Adobe Stock

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 11, 2018
Human Exceptionalism}

Oversight Needed

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 11, 2018
Human Exceptionalism}

Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aldous Huxley must have been shaking his head and saying “I told you so” after Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls whose genes he claimed to have edited. If true, these are the first genetically engineered human babies. After creating the embryos via in vitro fertilization, He — known in the Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
October 7, 2017
Technology}

The Spiral of Silence

_{Scott S. Powell
October 7, 2017
Technology}

Just two or three generations ago, most Americans understood that George Orwell’s classics Animal Farm and 1984 were written to explain how freedom is lost to totalitarianism and the intolerance that accompanies it. “Big Brother,” a term still casually used to describe an all-knowing governing authority, comes straight out of 1984. In the state that Orwell describes, all subjects are Read More ›