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George-Gilder

Life After Google — Gilder’s Vision

It’s the quality of vision that’s most painfully lacking in our intellectual and moral leaders, not merely diverse or polymathic knowledge Read More ›
I won't debate
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The “I Won’t Debate” Tactic

Good grief, if we face total calamity by the end of the century, why in the world wouldn’t you debate the science? Read More ›
robot face
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Richards, Medved: Sex Robots and the Future “Smart Machine” Dystopia

There are some definite “Stop the world, I want to get off” moments in the new Great Minds with Michael Medved podcast from Discovery Institute. Read More ›
The Human Advantage
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What to Fear? Jay Richards’s The Human Advantage Is Out!

The scary thing about AI and related advances in technology is not what it will to do us — like put us all out of work — but what we’ll do with it to ourselves and each other.  Read More ›
Stump Speaking

Darwin, Marx, and Something Called Political “Science”

A central progressive theme was historicism, crediting history almost exclusively with the development of culture. Read More ›
Karl Marx

Karl Marx at 200 — Darwinism & Communism

The men who translated Marxism into practical political terms in the form of Soviet terror were evolutionary thinkers. Read More ›
George Gilder
Photo: George Gilder speaking at Discovery Institute 25th anniversary reception, Ritz-Carlton, McLean, VA.

Study the Vision of George Gilder in a Seminar Setting, July 26-29 in Seattle

Countering “flat universe theory” is Gilder’s enterprise, and it captures much of what we do at Discovery Institute. Read More ›
Minds Q&A

Great Minds Podcast Launches Thursday — Q&A with Michael Medved Today

What do we miss, as members of the public, by focusing on daily headlines rather than pulling back for the big picture sometimes? Read More ›

Leap Before You Look: Reflections on the Mission and “Evolution” of Discovery Institute

I helped form Discovery Institute 25 years ago and over that period, if I may use the term, it has evolved. Read More ›

Let Science Be the Arbiter: A Reply to James Shapiro

If Shapiro holds that the answers to the great questions of biology all reside in the material components of life and their arrangement, then he must realize this to be just another philosophical position. Read More ›

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