A simple case of gratitude and integrity, “This isn’t about being a hero — that’s not even close to what it’s about,” says Meche. But look what seems to lie beneath this uncommon example of… 

Abstract: Wikileaks has created turmoil because people line up on different sides, seeing things in black and white, either championing transparency and making Assange a modern hero, or championing security and demanding his head on a plate. But these reactions fail to see that good governance requires the appropriate balance of principles.

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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… 

Here is an article posted on the Values Forum of the New World Encyclopedia about a rare conversation between Saudi Arabia and Iran: Saudi King, Ahmadinejad Talk Politics on Phone 12/10/2010 Al-ManarTV:: Saudi King, Ahmadinejad… 

(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 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… 

The Values in Knowledge Foundation identifies trends in modern thought and culture that give rise to what has been dubbed “the information age.”  A great danger inherent in the dominance of ungoverned data and information… 

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.

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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.…