Jonathan Witt
@JonathanRWitt
Executive Editor, Discovery Institute Press. Author. Tolkien lover. Christ follower. Shameless generalist.
Two big Ninth Circuit rulings today: 1. Court rules that Oregon requirement that parents seeking to adopt a kid from foster care agree to "respect, accept, and support" kid's sexual orientation and gender identity violates the First Amendment. Opinion by (excellent Trump…
BREAKING NEWS!! @RepGosar of AZ has just introduced a bill to restore liability to the vaccine makers for the vaccines they make - they should bear responsibility for their products like every other industry - and any self-respecting human beings do. The bill would: REPEAL…
A toast to NPR and PBS! 🥂 Congratulations! You’re finally free to be the radical leftists you’ve always been. @Gundisalvus
Bingo: "Tech making humans useless has been predicted for literally thousands of years. . . . And yet it never happens."
AI layoffs are hitting by the tens of thousands. Tech replacing jobs has been going on for a thousand years: Socrates worried about ox-plows making humans obsolete. Medieval Europe worried about waterwheels. The new jobs follow the same pattern every time.
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I just felt the last little bit of liberal leaving my body
National Public Radio was a laugh line on Frasier 25 years ago. The ultra-effete Niles Crane triumphed in getting his gal pal Daphne to listen to @NPR all the way on a long car trip. How are we still talking about whether something so absurdly niche at best should be tax-funded?
Our creativity in designing worlds will never match God's. I watch a lot of sci-fi like Star Wars and Star Trek, and all the imaginative places we see in these shows are like, "It's a desert world!" "It's a forest world!" "It's an ice world!" These single-biome planets are…
I can’t believe this is real Democrats in Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development have a new proposed rule aimed at “threatening family-run agritourism businesses such as pumpkin patches, flower festivals, and farm-to-table dinners” All that will be shut down…
Ernest Hemingway and the Scopes Trial evolutionnews.org/2025/07/heming… via @discoveryCSC
Congress is once again being enticed into granting an exemption from liability for damages--this time for herbicides. And of course they're denying that this is what's happening. open.substack.com/pub/merylnass/…
Are Scientists Allowed to Consider "Unscientific" Explanations? Actually, They Need to, and Often. evolutionnews.org/2025/07/are-sc… via @discoveryCSC @AMcDiarmid @PaulAlfredp
Daniel Witt Defuses a Common Gotcha Question: "How Did the Designer Do It?" evolutionnews.org/2025/07/how-di… via @discoveryCSC @RLCrowther @AMcDiarmid @jwarnerwallace @Sean_McDowell
The Corruption of Scientific Journals Continues Apace hotair.com/david-strom/20… @JGWestDI @DrJayRichards @d_klinghoffer
🚨Detransitioner takes on "Senator" @Scott_Wiener! “Look at my chest. I matter! At 13, they cut off my breasts... Listen to my voice. Testosterone did this.” - @LJDetrans Layla exposes the reality of gender affirming "care" being done to minors. CA is trying to protect criminal…
Government-funded media is not “independent.” What are you smoking?
Absolutely agree—Trump’s push to defund NPR and PBS is a blatant attack on independent media, desperate to silence anything but sycophantic praise. His authoritarian playbook thrives on controlling narratives, not truth. A strong democracy needs fearless, objective reporting, not…
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🚨❌ URGENT: CONGRESS IS ABOUT TO GRANT LEGAL IMMUNITY TO PESTICIDE COMPANIES! SECTION 453 WOULD SHIELD MONSANTO & FRIENDS FROM EPA OVERSIGHT AND LAWSUITS—TELL YOUR REP: VOTE NO!
I think many of you made a huge mistake about the “Client List”. About “Lolita Express”. About “Pedophile Island.” That is, if the goal was to use Epstein to get justice, and put an end to this abuse of children and civilians by the sickest members of the world’s ICs. You had…
When I speak God’s praises, He hears me. To the Creator of the universe, the sound of one person’s praise would seem slight, if not inaudible. Yet God not only hears us, He responds—and takes pleasure in responding. How amazing is that?
Medical Journal Article Pretends Medical Objections to Puberty Blockers Don't Exist nationalreview.com/corner/medical… @DrJayRichards