Join us on Tuesday, March 31 for a reception and lecture with Christopher Rufo, Discovery Institute’s new Director for the Center on Wealth and Poverty, and learn about the root causes of the homeless crisis such as addiction, mental illness, and family disintegration. Instead of continuing to employ the same self-defeating progressive policies, Chris will outline new, bold strategies to combat the issue.

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and bioethicist, Wesley J. Smith, writing in The American Spectator warns of the dangers of the world turning a blind eye to China’s human rights abuses.  Smith suggests that major corporations operating in China could bring pressure on Beijing that might ameliorate some of the worst instances of injustice.

Doomsday headlines warn that the age of “killer robots” is upon us, and that new military technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to the annihilation of the human race. What’s fact and what’s fiction? In The Case for Killer Robots: Why America’s Military Needs to Continue Development of Lethal AI, Director of Discovery Institute's Center on National and Artificial Intelligence Robert J. Marks investigates the potential military use of lethal AI and examines the practical and ethical challenges. Get your free online copy today!

Simply put, the proponents of the ruling theory tell us that we are all undoubtedly intelligent enough to fully grasp their theory, as long as we concur with it. But we are nothing but totally unqualified outsiders if we raise critical questions concerning any of its basic tenets, or if we come to the conclusion that it is mostly wrong.

No family should need permission to choose a school for their own kids. The government needs to stop siphoning away funding from one of the few areas in public education that is making a real difference—especially in poorer communities who lack the private school alternatives available to wealthier families.