Episodes

  • Sam Brownback on the Connection Between Religious Freedom and Human Rights

    Sam Brownback on the Connection Between Religious Freedom and Human Rights
    Sep 16 2024
    In the modern era, religious freedom — the ability to live and act according to one's faith — has been seen as a profoundly important human right. To a disturbing degree, that is no longer true. No one has put more thought into this urgent matter of human freedom than my guest today, Sam Brownback.
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    58 mins
  • Steven J. Buri on the Pro-Human Mission of Discovery Institute

    Steven J. Buri on the Pro-Human Mission of Discovery Institute
    Jun 17 2024
    For the last Humanize episode of the season, I thought it would be edifying to explore how Discovery Institute's institutional programs dovetail with the work of the Center on Human Exceptionalism. Who better to ask than our intrepid president, Steven J. Buri?
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    57 mins
  • Robert J. Marks II and Zoltan Istvan on the Promise — or Threat — of Artificial Intelligence

    Robert J. Marks II and Zoltan Istvan on the Promise — or Threat — of Artificial Intelligence
    May 6 2024
    In this episode of Humanize, Wesley focuses on AI — artificial intelligence. Are we on the verge of an era if incalculable human progress because of the power of AI? Or are we threatened with being made obsolete and perhaps extinguished in an age of intelligent machines? Or, perhaps, a combination of both? The program features two experts who have Read More ›
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Thomas Linzey on the Nature Rights Movement

    Thomas Linzey on the Nature Rights Movement
    Apr 22 2024
    Most people support responsible environmental policies but may be unaware of how radical the leading edge of the movement has become as an increasing number of activists support granting personhood rights to nature. Is nature rights a subversive threat to human exceptionalism and our thriving or is it the next necessary step in society’s moral growth and key to preventing Read More ›
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Mark Davis Pickup on Living with Intense Suffering and Experiencing a Miraculous Healing

    Mark Davis Pickup on Living with Intense Suffering and Experiencing a Miraculous Healing
    Apr 8 2024
    We live in a time in which eliminating suffering is considered by many to be society’s ultimate purpose. Too often, this leads to policies that eliminate suffering by eliminating the sufferer. Still, for those not experiencing intense pain or anguish, arguing for improved care instead of increased access to assisted suicide or euthanasia can seem like a blithe platitude. “If Read More ›
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Dr. Charles Camosy on Current Trends in Bioethics

    Dr. Charles Camosy on Current Trends in Bioethics
    Mar 11 2024
    To say the least, bioethics is controversial. Many in the mainstream movement reject the sanctity and equal dignity of human life around issues such as abortion, assisted suicide, and biotechnology. But there is a robust pushback against such approaches—a human dignity bioethics, if you will—that promotes medical ethics and public health policies that align with the “do no harm” ethic Read More ›
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Stephen C. Meyer on the Crisis of Trust in Science

    Stephen C. Meyer on the Crisis of Trust in Science
    Feb 26 2024
    It is no secret that most of society’s critical institutions are suffering from a crisis of trust. One of these is science, which heretofore enjoyed the confidence of the vast majority of the American people. To learn, what happened, whether the loss of confidence is deserved, and what can be done about it, Wesley asked the Director of the Discovery Read More ›
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • The Rev. Dr. Arthur Cribbs, Jr. on His Book HollyWatts: From the Promised Land to Purgatory and the Crisis in Race Relations

    The Rev. Dr. Arthur Cribbs, Jr. on His Book HollyWatts: From the Promised Land to Purgatory and the Crisis in Race Relations
    Feb 12 2024
    Racism has been America’s lingering cancer. There is no question that great strides have been made in eradicating this evil from our culture since the bad old days of slavery and Jim Crow. But alas, the urgent task is not completed, and as a result, a great divide still lingers among too many Americans based on superficial and irrelevant differences Read More ›
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    1 hr and 14 mins