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Center on Human Exceptionalism

The mission of Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism is to affirm and uphold the intrinsic nature of human dignity, liberty, and equality. In resistance to a growing movement against unique human personhood, we aim to revitalize a commitment to the traditional Western view of human rights and human responsibilities — summed up by the term “human exceptionalism.” Read more

Humanize

How Assisted Suicide Euthanized Roe v. Wade

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June 24, 2022}

Back in the ’90s, the assisted-suicide movement tried to convince the Supreme Court to impose a Roe v. Wade–style decision for their cause that would circumvent the democratic process by imposing doctor-hastened death as a constitutional right.

Euthanasia’s Cruel Compassion: Wesley J. Smith; June 22, 2022

Disabled Man Commits Italy’s First Legal Assisted Suicide: Wesley J. Smith; June 20, 2022

Jane’s Revenge Threats against Pro-Lifers Presage a New ‘Bleeding Kansas’: Wesley J. Smith; June 15, 2022

Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights: Wesley J. Smith; June 14, 2022

Political Passions Threaten a New ‘Bleeding Kansas’: Wesley J. Smith; June 13, 2022

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Podcast

Robert Marbut on America’s Homelessness Crisis, Strategies for Uplifting the Homeless, and Effective Government Policies

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Tom Shakely
May 23, 2022}

Homelessness has reached crisis proportions. Few issues of human dignity are as heart wrenching as the wretched scenes in our most prosperous cities — San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle — where one can drive down main thoroughfares and be confronted with tent encampments lining streets that provide scant shelter for thousands of destitute people. The crisis is as Read More ›

Joseph Bottum on Cyber Ethics, Poetry, Culture, and Community

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Jackson Meyer
May 9, 2022}

In this episode of Humanize, Wesley has a wide-ranging a conversation with his close friend Joseph Bottum, one of our most well read and original thinkers, a true intellectual in the best sense of that term. Their conversation ranges from the new field of cyber-ethics, to poetry, to the importance of cemeteries in maintaining human community, to how the laughter Read More ›

O. Carter Snead on Bioethics, ‘What It Means to Be Human,’ and the Pro-Life Movement After Dobbs

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Tom Shakely
April 25, 2022}

Perhaps no field in society has the naked power, as does bioethics, to impact our individual lives and those of the ones we love. Bioethics focuses on the challenges of mortality, how we care for the ill and vulnerable, and the rights and responsibilities that flow from being a member of the human family. The problem is that there is Read More ›