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

About Those ‘Synthetic Embryos’

Wesley J. Smith
August 9, 2022
Israeli researchers appear to have created what they are calling “synthetic mouse embryos,” using embryonic stem cells — without fertilization — and developed them about halfway through a normal mouse period of gestation.

Pro-Abortion Absolutism and Its Consequences

Wesley J. Smith
August 8, 2022

10,000+ Canadian Euthanasia Killings in 2021

Wesley J. Smith
August 3, 2022

Community Schools’ ‘Woke’ Indoctrination Agenda

Arina O. Grossu
July 28, 2022

U.K. Transgender Clinic to Close after Damning Report: ‘Not Safe’ for Children

Wesley J. Smith
July 28, 2022

Stifling Food Production in the Name of Saving the Planet

Wesley J. Smith
July 27, 2022

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Podcast

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 ›

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 ›

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