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Materialism and Genetics

This article has just been published on the Values Forum of  the New World Encyclopedia Abstract: Advances in genetic science is one of the most exciting developments of our time.  There arises from this great… 

Why the spike in extremist websites?

(AP) – 19 hours ago PARIS — The chief of Interpol says the “skyrocketing” number of extremist websites is making it easier for terrorists to recruit middle class youth around the world. Discussion of this… 

The term ‘Values’ at risk

The high energy, highly charged, political movement on the American right called “Values Voters,” ties the term values to a particular, parochial set of values, often expressed in narrow, divisive, and judgmental ways (even though… 

More than the Ivory Tower

Judge Vaughn Walker

Sometimes human and social concerns with an intellectual dimension get mistaken for debate “in the Ivory Tower.”  This is an understandable mistake.  No harm done.  Still though, it is important whenever possible to set the course more clearly, and tie values in knowledge issues to pressing contemporary concerns in plain language.

Author and writer Nancy Pearcey has a short and poignant piece in the American Thinker investigating Vaughn Walker’s decision to overturn California’s Proposition 8, explaining how the fact and value split contributed so centrally to the judge’s ruling.

She writes:

Question of Urbanization (from FP)

Foreign Policy magazine introduces a major article with the following:

The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This new world is not — and will not be — one global village, so much as a network of different ones.

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The Values in Knowledge Foundation supports positive directions in the world of knowledge and information through an integrated web of projects, activities, and communities devoted to recover and repair our grasp of how we know.…