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Timothy S. Goeglein on Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family
The United States is in a cultural crisis. Our young are experiencing unprecedented levels of mental illness. Family structures are crumbling with out-of-wedlock births increasing while, at the same…
Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. on His Life and the Importance of America’s Founding Principles
In our badly fractured society, can public servants and politicians act with decency and argue about policy with restraint and dignity? We believe the answer is yes, and so Wesley invited a man on…
Jan Jekielek on China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Atrocity
In one of the great atrocities in human history, Chinese political prisoners are tissue-typed and later murdered and harvested to supply the country’s thriving organ transplant black market. How long…
The Trouble with Transhumanism: Wesley J. Smith’s Guest Appearance on Bioethics Babe
Turnabout is fair play, they say. So on this episode of Humanize, Wesley is the guest, interviewed by the “Bioethics Babe,” the podcast of Center on Human Exceptionalism Fellow Arina Grossu Agnew.…
Melissa Ortiz on the Disability Rights Movement
Disability rights is a global social and civil rights movement that advocates for equal opportunities, accessibility, and freedom from discrimination. The goal is to ensure that people with…
Dr. Casey Luskin on the Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimpanzees and Why They Matter
Chimpanzees, we are told, are the closest relatives to human beings. Indeed, for years scientists claimed that there is only about a one percent difference separating the human genome from that of…
S5E9 Dr. Michael J. New on Abortion, the Dobbs Decision, Sidewalk Counseling, and the Annual March for Life
The struggle over the legality of abortion has roiled the country for more than fifty years. On one side, the pro-life movement insists that innocent life must be protected by the government and in…
S5E8 Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick on the Nature of Evil
Is evil a metaphysical reality, or is it merely a word we use to describe intentionally destructive behavior or horribly painful outcomes? If evil is real, what is its nature? Can one believe in the…
S5E7 Robert P. George on the Reality and Importance of Human Exceptionalism
Whether or not human beings are exceptional is one of the most important questions of our age. Either we have unique value and moral responsibilities, or we are just another animal in the forest, and…
S5E6 Aaron Kheriaty, MD, on How to Heal Modern Medicine
Something has gone terribly wrong with American medicine. The COVID pandemic broke the back of trust in our public health officials. There is an affordability crisis. Medical ethics have degraded to…
S5E5 Olivier Bonnassies and Brian Miller on the Scientific Evidence for God
The Epistle to the Hebrews tells us that “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” That isn’t science. It is religion, and these days, many have come to believe…
S5E4 Michael Grunwald on How Factory Farms Can Save the Planet
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…
S5E3 Michael Egnor M.D. and Denyse O’Leary on Evidence for the Existence of the Soul
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…
S5E2 Megan Basham on Faith, a Cancer Diagnosis, and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
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…
S5E1 Sam Brownback on the Urgency of Religious Freedom
Religious freedom — the ability to live and act according to one’s faith — is one of our most fundamental human rights. But as Western society has secularized, the importance of religious freedom…
Alex Schadenberg and Roger Foley on the Cruelty of Canada’s Euthanasia Regime
Euthanasia is bad medicine and even worse public policy. Once a society accepts the principle that killing is a splendid answer to suffering, the kinds and extent of suffering that come to be seen as…
George Gilder on Artificial Intelligence, Economic Innovation, and the Promise of Cryptocurrency
We live in an era of cultural whiplash. Never has the potential for technological advances been more pronounced, and at the same time, the potential for wrenching societal dislocations so…
S4E15 Andrew V. Abela on the “Super Habits” That Make for a Successful Life
These days, hedonism strikes a beat in society. We have long been told that if it feels good, if it is what we want, so long as we aren’t hurting others, then, we should do it. But does that kind of…
S4E14 Marvin Olasky on the Humanity of Homeless Persons
Homelessness has become a crisis in the United States. We live in the richest country in the world, and yet one can drive down main thoroughfares of our most prosperous cities and be confronted with…
S4E13 Katy Faust on Putting Children First
Childhood in America today is often troubled. Children are experiencing mental health crises, suicidal ideation, educational underperformance, social discord, sexualization at young ages, and…
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