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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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The United States of Social Anarchy

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November 21, 2022}

Can you sense it? Do you feel the dread? Institutions are failing. Cohesion has frayed. As the poet wrote, the center cannot hold, the best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity. Our country is becoming the United States of Social Anarchy.

Unleash the Trial Lawyers to End Mutilation of Gender-Dysphoric Children: Wesley J. Smith; November 12, 2022

‘Nullectomy’: Physician-Assisted Mutilation: Wesley J. Smith; November 2, 2022

Bioethicist Proposes ‘Right’ to Gender-Affirming Care: Wesley J. Smith; November 1, 2022

Religious Freedom: Biden Policy Not Where Administration’s Mouth Is: Wesley J. Smith; October 28, 2022

Science Journal Claim: ‘Ocean’ Is a ‘Living Entity’ with Inherent Rights: Wesley J. Smith; October 19, 2022

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Podcast

Jennifer Lahl on ‘The Detransition Diaries: Saving our Sisters’

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Jackson Meyer
November 7, 2022}

We are in the midst of a transgender moral panic. Where only a decade ago, very few people sought what used to be called a sex change, today the numbers of people seeking to “transition” is becoming a flood. It is one thing when adults decide to radically alter their bodies. But it is quite another to promote these radical Read More ›

Ward Connerly on Racism, Critical Race Theory, and Individual Rights

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Tom Shakely
October 24, 2022}

Racism is profoundly evil and a clear violation of human exceptionalism by treating inherent equals unequally. Indeed, if we are to become a truly just society, racism must be countered by people of good will whenever it is expressed. At the same time, slavery is long gone and Jim Crow is dead, never to be mourned. So, the question must Read More ›

Robert J. Marks II on Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, and Whether Computers Will Ever Be More Than ‘Human’

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Tom Shakely
October 10, 2022}

In this episode of Humanize, Wesley focuses on the emerging computer technology known as artificial intelligence. Are we on the verge of the era of machines? Is AI destined to supplant most human endeavors and activities? Can a computer be deemed a “person” and should it be granted rights as part of the moral community. Will we ever attain immortality Read More ›