Episodes

  • Daniel Carcillo on Psychedelics as a Treatment for Depression and Traumatic Brain Injury

    Daniel Carcillo on Psychedelics as a Treatment for Depression and Traumatic Brain Injury
    Nov 11 2024
    People with serious mental health issues often face years, if not a lifetime, of debilitating symptoms. These traumas can sometimes be difficult to treat, much less cure. And that has some people looking for new avenues of care beyond standard medicines, including — controversially — psychedelic substances such as Psilocybin, LSD, and the like. Enthusiasts believe that these substances offer Read More ›
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    58 mins
  • Dr. Keri D. Ingraham on the Most Important Issues in American K-12 Education

    Dr. Keri D. Ingraham on the Most Important Issues in American K-12 Education
    Oct 28 2024
    It’s no secret that American education is experiencing a profound crisis. Many of our children can’t read, do mathematics, or learn basic life skills. At the same time, many accuse the education establishment of imposing radical ideological views on children such as gender ideology and anti-Americanism. The good news is that concerted efforts are underway to reform education to better Read More ›
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Timothy S. Goeglein on the Dangers of Utopianism

    Timothy S. Goeglein on the Dangers of Utopianism
    Oct 14 2024
    American institutions are less trusted than ever before, our society is deeply divided, and much of the world is in turmoil. The problem isn’t religion, atheism, or ideology, per se. Rather, the real culprit — and one that receives far too little attention in public discourse — is the widespread embrace by social activists of utopianism, a zealous belief in Read More ›
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Richard Weikart on Medicine’s Descent from Healing to Killing

    Richard Weikart on Medicine’s Descent from Healing to Killing
    Sep 30 2024
    Whether to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia is one of the most culturally contentious — and important — public policy debates of our time. Supporters of legalization call it a compassionate “last resort” means of preventing unnecessary suffering and promoting autonomy. Opponents see the intentional ending of the lives of the ill as a profound abandonment and a path to Read More ›
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    58 mins
  • 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