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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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Hospital Loses ‘Futile Care’ Attempt to Force Covid Patient Off Life Support

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January 22, 2022}

“Futile care” is a pronounced threat to patient autonomy and the equality of all human life. This is the idea. When doctors think that the quality of a patient’s life is not worth living — but the patient, family, or surrogate want care to continue — doctors can overrule patients and terminate wanted life-sustaining treatment.

NBC Will Not Send Announcers to Beijing — for the Wrong Reason: Wesley J. Smith; January 20, 2022

What 1973’s Soylent Green Accurately Predicted about 2022: Wesley J. Smith; January 16, 2022

Seattle Power Company Sued for Violating the Rights of Fish: Wesley J. Smith; January 15, 2022

We Should Cheer the Pig-to-Human Heart Transplant: Wesley J. Smith; January 10, 2022

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

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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 ›