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 are Becoming a Suicide Nation as Illinois Legislature Passes Assisted Suicide Bill

Wesley J. Smith
November 1, 2025
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Euthanasia

Scottish Proposal Would Ban Assisted Suicide Prevention

Wesley J. Smith
November 1, 2025
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Euthanasia

The Science of Fertility: Rethinking Women’s Reproductive Health with Dr. Marguerite Duane

Arina Grossu Agnew
October 29, 2025
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Bioethics

Why Bioethics Matters More Than Ever in Modern Medicine

Arina Grossu Agnew
October 28, 2025
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Bioethics

Totalitarian “Nature Rights” Legislation in U.K. House of Lords

Wesley J. Smith
October 27, 2025
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Nature and Conservation

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Michael Grunwald on How Factory Farms Can Save the Planet

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Michael Grunwald
October 27, 2025
Mark Twain is generally credited with the quip, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” The same can’t be said about climate change, which has become one of our most contentious and complicated public policy controversies. It’s also divisive. According to a recent Gallup Poll, sixty-two percent of those polled worry about climate change a great deal or a fair amount. Thirty-eight percent worry about warming just a little or not at all. What to do about it causes further disagreement, even among those very concerned about a warming climate. The question of how to best balance the use of fossil fuels and renewable energy sources takes up most of these debates, an issue for another day. But there are also disagreements about how to …

Michael Egnor M.D. and Denyse O’Leary on Evidence for the Existence of the Soul

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Michael Egnor and Denyse O'Leary
October 14, 2025
The existence of the human soul is usually described as a matter of faith unprovable by science. But is that true? What if evidence exists that we each do indeed have souls and even, that life continues after death? Whether we have souls and what happens to us after death — obliteration, reincarnation, heaven, hell — is a question about which humans have obsessed for as long as we have records of our existence. Indeed, it may be the ultimate question, for as a suicidal Hamlet laments in Shakespeare’s most immortal soliloquy: To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause… Wesley’s guests on today’s program respond …

Megan Basham on Faith, a Cancer Diagnosis, and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

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Megan Basham
September 29, 2025
It is a hard fact of life that — if we live long enough — we or those we love will receive a devastating medical diagnosis. How we cope in such difficult circumstances can both impact the course of our personal recovery and, in some cases, uplift the human condition. Christian apologist and journalist Megan Basham has walked this difficult road. Just after Thanksgiving last year, she was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer, which radically changed the expected course of her life. Since then, in an impressive display of courage and leadership, she has publicly shared how the disease and treatment impacted her life, her family, her career, and the importance of faith in devastating circumstances. Basham joined Wesley to share insights that she has gained from, in essence, walking …

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