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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

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We Should Cheer the Pig-to-Human Heart Transplant

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 10, 2022}

This is an amazing potential advance in organ transplant medicine. A pig’s heart — genetically modified to not be rejected as readily — has been transplanted into a dying human patient.

Ezekiel Emanuel Wants Respiratory-Illness Technocracy Without End: Wesley J. Smith; January 8, 2022

Peter Singer: Deny Unvaccinated ICU Care Versus Vaccinated: Wesley J. Smith; January 7, 2022

Stop ‘Authoritarian Climate Governance’ Before It is Too Late: Wesley J. Smith; January 4, 2022

Prenatal Search-and-Destroy Genetic Tests Often Wrong: Wesley J. Smith; January 2, 2022

New York Department of Health Announces Discriminatory Policy on Covid Therapeutics Access: Wesley J. Smith; December 31, 2021

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Alveda King on the American Civil Rights Movement, Critical Race Theory, and the American Dream

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Jackson Meyer
January 17, 2022}

Since the murder of George Floyd, the nation has been embroiled in racial unrest of a kind not seen in decades. It is a disturbing time. Is racism best struggled against through the colorblind approach of the Reverend, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., or a newer strategy—summarized by the term “critical race theory”—that sees race as the central fact of Read More ›

Kathryn Jean Lopez on Truth, Dorothy Day, and ‘A Year With the Mystics’

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Tom Shakely
January 10, 2022}

“What is truth?” Pontius Pilate famously asked Jesus. That is a most human question, because of all the known species in the universe, only we even understand the concept of Truth with a capital T. As moral beings, most of us, at least to some extent, seek to live out our lives in ways that we conceive of as Truth. Read More ›

Nina Shea on the Chinese Communist Party, Minority Rights, and Religious Freedom

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Jackson Meyer
January 3, 2022}

Since the Holocaust, we have agreed to the idealistic vision of “Never Again,” that is, the kind of evil perpetrated by the Third Reich against Jews and others can never be allowed to be repeated. But do we mean it? Today, the Chinese Communist Party is carrying out what can only be described as “Fourth Reich” policies to suppress religion Read More ›