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Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Darwinism and Critical Theory — The Connection

"Strange that it may seem, Darwin plays a central role in this drama. Karl Marx himself credited Darwin with much of his basic insight into human history." Read More ›
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Against the Tide: The Darkening Intellectual Scene

"Once you lose the kind of stabilizing influence of rational thought and respect," says John Lennox, "then you can end up with violence, as we have seen." Read More ›
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Image credit: Execution of Marie Antoinette, Unknown author / Public domain.

Why Intelligent Design Had to Be the First to Face the Guillotine

In Wesley J. Smith’s phrase, in the present cultural moment, we have witnessed “the French Revolution attacking the American Revolution.” Read More ›
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Photo: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, by Verhoeff, Bert / Anefo / CC0.

“Live Not by Lies”: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design

The censors depend on active personal destruction not to silence us, but to get us (out of fear) to lie and thus silence ourselves. Read More ›
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Darwinism and Intelligent Design in Poland 

I told the staff of En Arche that the foundation reminded me of Discovery Institute twenty years ago. Read More ›
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Gilder: AI and the Return of the Marxist Utopia

In this vision, thanks to AI, work is to become an obsolete concept as we all sit around on the beach collecting a monthly paycheck from the government. Read More ›
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From Darwinism to Dataism: Will We Lose Democracy to Techno-Religion?

When tyranny comes it often is introduced as some improvement, or as the correction of some perceived problem. Read More ›
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Photo credit: University of Illinois Library (Textbooks in the Curriculum Collection) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biased School Textbooks Aren’t Limited to Biology

Textbook publishers use their influence over kids and the appearance of neutrality to advance a set of strong biases. Read More ›
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Darwin, Marx, and Freud: The Genealogy of “Posthumanism”

Exactly how posthumanism cashes out in contemporary cultural terms is the subject of a detailed study with new polling data by John G. West. Read More ›

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