

The Bill Walton Show: “What Both the Left and Right Miss About Work in America” with Oren Cass
I believe that growth can benefit all Americans, yet while our GDP has tripled in size from 1975 to 2015, average wages have barely risen. The response from both political parties has been to double down on policies that have failed to address this reality Maybe they’re missing something crucial in their economic calculations. A focus on work. Author and Read More ›

Why Talent Trumps Taxes

Financial Busts: Why Are We Always Surprised
People look to the government to prevent future financial crises and too many trust that politicians and economic experts can create policies to protect us and our 401(k) plans. We shouldn’t rely on them. These experts are smart, mostly well-intentioned people but they can’t prevent the next crisis. No one can. Why is that? And why is a future crisis Read More ›

Cosmic Fine-Tuning Would Be Hard to Believe if It Weren’t True: an Interview with Michael Denton
“Nature is absurd,” jokes biologist Michael Denton, adapting a view expressed by physicist Richard Feynman. In saying so, Denton means to highlight what often seems to be the absurdly fine-tuned fitness of the properties of light, water, fire, and more, that allow for our existence. Dr. Denton gives a masterful and highly charming summary of the thesis of his new Read More ›

Economist George Gilder on Capitalism, Socialism, and Google
Life After Google author George Gilder explains the role of creativity in capitalism as he shares economic insight on Life, Liberty & Levin. Learning, he says, is the heart of capitalism. Whereas capitalism is about creativity, socialism is about planning and rests on the assumption that we already know everything we need to know in order to plan our future.

Michael Denton’s Intellectual Evolution
“Life’s order,” say biologist Mike Denton, “is written into the very fabric of reality itself. It’s not an add-in. It’s in there from the very beginning.” That is his fascinating and compelling version of structuralism. For more on this see: https://evolutionnews.org/2018/10/mic…

Stephen Meyer on the Return of the God Hypothesis
Biology reveals evidence of design, Dr. Stephen Meyer explains in this conversation with Michael Medved, but it can’t take us very far in identifying the source of that design. Proponents of intelligent design have been clear about that. For an idea about who or what the designer might be, you need to turn to other scientific fields — physics and cosmology Read More ›

Stephen Meyer’s Next Frontier

Forget Cloud Computing, Blockchain is the Future
George Gilder recently sat down with Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution on his online series Uncommon Knowledge. Gilder discusses his new book Life After Google, where he argues that bitcoin and blockchain are destined to surpass cloud computing, ushering in a new era of technology. Gilder also parses over a history of technology and artificial intelligence, quelling fears about machines taking all of Read More ›