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Photo: Masada National Park, Israel, by Andrew Shiva/Wikipedia.

Join the Discovery Insiders Tour to Israel and Explore a Very Timely and Precious Vision

This is something seemingly new under the sun — Jews and Christians united because of their faiths, not despite them. Read More ›
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Weikart, Medved: Getting to the Bottom of “Hitler’s Religion”

You think Adolf Hitler is dead? In a physical sense, yes, but he lives on in ludicrous comparisons that political and cultural partisans seem unable to stop themselves from making. Read More ›
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Aquinas, Chaberek, Richards: A Cleansing Conversation

Our culture is both degraded and degrading. No doubt the caustic effects of some trends in scientific thought — about biological origins, for example — have played a part in that. What can we do about it? Read More ›
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Image: Moses shatters the tablets, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinism and the “Ten Disenchantments”

There’s no doubt that the confrontation with Darwinian evolution in the 19th century stole much of the confidence of traditional faith leaders. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Spencer, by Vas Panagiotopoulos [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Psychology Grapples with Racism and Anti-Semitism

Kevin MacDonald is trying to resurrect this troubling legacy of Darwinian theory. Read More ›
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Meet Aleš Hrdlička, FDR’s Favorite Eugenicist

Darwin-inspired eugenics and racial pseudoscience are like some sort of insidious, and hideous, household pest. Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of Thomas Jefferson, University of Virginia, by Troy (Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

University of Virginia Pushes Back Against Free Speech Abridgment

UVA, as one of America’s top public universities, can help set the trend for free speech. Read More ›
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Free Will Denial and PreCrimes

If we treat criminals the way we treat natural disasters — as physical events without moral culpability — the pragmatic approach is preemption as well. Read More ›
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Photo: Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls (center) with William Penney and John Cockcroft, by Los Alamos National Laboratory [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Freedom and Scientific Progress – A Necessary Relationship

A familiar talking point holds that a rigid attitude to science along Darwinist lines is indispensable to technological advance, while academic freedom impedes it. Read More ›

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