Jay Richards, Ph.D.

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Executive Editor — The Stream

Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is the Executive Editor of The Stream. He is an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Business and Economics at The Catholic University of America and a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute. He is author of many books including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013), and Indivisible (2012), co-authored with James Robison. He is also the author of Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; and co-author of The Privileged Planet with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez. His most recent book, co-authored with Jonathan Witt, is The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom that J.R.R. Tolkien Got and the West Forgot. He has a Ph.D., with honors, in philosophy and theology from Princeton Theological Seminary.

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The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe

For the first time in history, the world shut itself down—by choice—all for fear of a virus, COVID-19, that wasn’t well understood. The government, wi...

Featured on: Wednesday, October 21, 2020

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The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines

For two and a half centuries, America has been held together by the belief that if you work hard and conduct yourself responsibly in this country, you...

Featured on: Tuesday, September 4, 2018

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