Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is Director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He also is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012); Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; The Privileged Planet, with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, and The Human Advantage. His most recent book is The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a Catastrophe. He is also creator and executive producer of several documentaries, including three that have appeared widely on PBS. Richards' articles and essays have been published in The Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The New York Post, Newsweek, Forbes, Fox News, and many other publications. He has appeared on over a thousand radio and television programs, and lectured widely in many national and international venues. His 2008 debate at Stanford University with Christopher Hitchens, moderated by Ben Stein, was broadcast live to several hundred churches in North America.
Basic decency provides more than enough grounds for Christians to oppose hateful and irrational attacks against Jews and Israel. We should treat these episodes as tests of our courage and discernment, because that's exactly what they are.
Date posted: 2026-02-14
There are several ways to define sex precisely. Any good definition will capture the central concept of biological sex - the orientation of male and female bodies for reproduction. It will also refer to what happens under normal development while accounting for disorders. Finally, it will accommodate the fact that organisms have and do different things at different stages of development.
Date posted: 2023-04-22