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Mayor Warren Wilson on Environmentalists Caring More About Birds Than the Lives of King Cove Residents

King Cove is a remote town in the Aleutian Islands, adjacent to the 300,000-acre Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. In 1980, the refuge was designated a wilderness area. T

Robert J. Marks II on the Benefits and Potential Perils of Artificial Intelligence

We are in the age of artificial intelligence. But what does that mean for the human future? Some claim that AI is merely a very sophisticated tool that will lead to stunn

Stephen C. Meyer on “The Story of Everything”

In 50 BC, the great Roman statesman Cicero expressed a thought that has been echoed by thinkers down the generations: “The celestial order and beauty of the universe comp

Timothy S. Goeglein on Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family

The United States is in a cultural crisis. Our young are experiencing unprecedented levels of mental illness. Family structures are crumbling with out-of-wedlock births i

Dr. Benjamin S. Carson Sr. on His Life and the Importance of America’s Founding Principles

In our badly fractured society, can public servants and politicians act with decency and argue about policy with restraint and dignity? We believe the answer is yes, and

Jan Jekielek on China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Atrocity

In one of the great atrocities in human history, Chinese political prisoners are tissue-typed and later murdered and harvested to supply the country’s thriving organ tran

The Trouble with Transhumanism: Wesley J. Smith’s Guest Appearance on Bioethics Babe

Turnabout is fair play, they say. So on this episode of Humanize, Wesley is the guest, interviewed by the “Bioethics Babe,” the podcast of Center on Human Exceptionalism

Melissa Ortiz on the Disability Rights Movement

Disability rights is a global social and civil rights movement that advocates for equal opportunities, accessibility, and freedom from discrimination. The goal is to ensu

Dr. Casey Luskin on the Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimpanzees and Why They Matter

Chimpanzees, we are told, are the closest relatives to human beings. Indeed, for years scientists claimed that there is only about a one percent difference separating the

Dr. Michael J. New on Abortion, the Dobbs Decision, Sidewalk Counseling, and the Annual March for Life

The struggle over the legality of abortion has roiled the country for more than fifty years. On one side, the pro-life movement insists that innocent life must be protect

Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick on the Nature of Evil

Is evil a metaphysical reality, or is it merely a word we use to describe intentionally destructive behavior or horribly painful outcomes? If evil is real, what is its na

Robert P. George on the Reality and Importance of Human Exceptionalism

Whether or not human beings are exceptional is one of the most important questions of our age. Either we have unique value and moral responsibilities, or we are just anot

Aaron Kheriaty, MD, on How to Heal Modern Medicine

Something has gone terribly wrong with American medicine. The COVID pandemic broke the back of trust in our public health officials. There is an affordability crisis. Med

Olivier Bonnassies and Brian Miller on the Scientific Evidence for God

The Epistle to the Hebrews tells us that “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” That isn’t science. It is religion, and these days

Michael Grunwald on How Factory Farms Can Save the Planet

Mark Twain is generally credited with the quip, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” The same can’t be said about climate change, which

Michael Egnor, MD, and Denyse O’Leary on Evidence for the Existence of the Soul

The existence of the human soul is usually described as a matter of faith unprovable by science. But is that true? What if evidence exists that we each do indeed have sou

Megan Basham on Faith, a Cancer Diagnosis, and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

It is a hard fact of life that — if we live long enough — we or those we love will receive a devastating medical diagnosis. How we cope in such difficult circumstances ca

Sam Brownback on the Urgency of Religious Freedom

Religious freedom — the ability to live and act according to one’s faith — is one of our most fundamental human rights. But as Western society has secularized, the import

Alex Schadenberg and Roger Foley on the Cruelty of Canada’s Euthanasia Regime

Euthanasia is bad medicine and even worse public policy. Once a society accepts the principle that killing is a splendid answer to suffering, the kinds and extent of suff

George Gilder on Artificial Intelligence, Economic Innovation, and the Promise of Cryptocurrency

We live in an era of cultural whiplash. Never has the potential for technological advances been more pronounced, and at the same time, the potential for wrenching societa