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The Nigerian Experiment: Social Darwinism in Practice

In the late 19th century, Great Britain, the United States, and twelve European nations got together and divided Africa up among themselves. Read More ›
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Tucker Carlson and the Second Coming of the Alt-Right

The Alt-Right did more plundering of pseudo-science, while the Woke Right plunders Christianity while pretending to revere it. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Sacred Fiction

A book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Charles Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments. Read More ›
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A Physician’s Sacred Duty — To Care or to Kill?

As a hospice and palliative care physician for over twenty years, Dr. Howard Glicksman regularly cares for terminally ill patients. Read More ›
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Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Read More ›
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Richard Weikart: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing

Dr. Weikart's book is a wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide from ancient Greece to today.  Read More ›
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How Did We Get Here? New Book by Richard Weikart Tracks Rise of the Culture of Death

The Judeo-Christian tradition encouraged a culture of life, but the secular Enlightenment and Darwinian materialism have tugged us in a different direction. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps 

A defender of Darwinism might object that it’s silly to ding Darwin for his racism, since just about every white person in Victorian England was racist. Read More ›
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For Darwin Day, Robert Shedinger Calls Darwin’s Bluff

Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a lengthy manuscript he never finished. Read More ›
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Discovery Institute Speakers Get a Hearty Reception in Africa

At the University of Eldoret, in Kenya, we were greeted with — no joke — a band and a red carpet. Read More ›

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