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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

Assisted Suicide Implicated in Suicide Crisis

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September 19, 2022}

If we don’t change our current cultural trajectory, we will not only become pro-some suicides but suicide-embracing all-in-all.

Progressivism Colonizes the Science Journals: Wesley J. Smith; August 31, 2022

‘Anything Goes’ Reproduction Gathers Steam: Wesley J. Smith; August 30, 2022

Jared Kushner, the Transhumanist in the White House: Wesley J. Smith; August 26, 2022

Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia: Wesley J. Smith; August 25, 2022

Pro-Abortion MDs Want Media to Cancel Pro-Life Voices: Wesley J. Smith; August 16, 2022

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Podcast

Ambassador Sam Brownback on the Threat to Religious Freedom in America

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Jackson Meyer
September 26, 2022}

With Western society becoming morally polyglot and secular, religious freedom is becoming a major political clash point, and in the United States, a central front in what is sometimes called the culture war. Proponents of robust religious freedom protections see the “free exercise” of religion guaranteed in the Constitution as the “First Liberty.” But others view the same issue as Read More ›

Dean Koontz on His Vocation as an Author, Art and Meaning in Life, and Human Exceptionalism

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Jackson Meyer
September 12, 2022}

In episode one of the second season of Humanize, Wesley J. Smith’s guest is the internationally famous novelist Dean Koontz. Dean and Wesley discuss how he came to be an author, how life is filled with meaning, his art, the importance of human exceptionalism, the problem with transhumanism, and how Dean uses humor to further his plots and character development. Read More ›

Catherine Glenn Foster on Abortion and the Dawning of a Post-Roe America

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Tom Shakely
June 28, 2022}

In 1973, nearly 50 years ago, the United States Supreme Court conjured a right to abortion in the Constitution, short-circuiting the democratic debate then ongoing in the states about whether to legalize pregnancy terminations, and if so, under what circumstances. Roe v Wade tore the country apart, launching the pro-life movement into national prominence, resulting in decades of committed democratic Read More ›