Ben Shapiro,
Ben Shapiro Show,
David Berlinski,
Discovery Institute,
drug trials,
essentialism,
Evolution,
evolutionary science,
Fast Track,
Germans,
human beings,
Human Nature (book),
interview,
Jews,
Nazis,
philosophy,
prescription medicines,
science,
social consequences,
Sunday Special,
USFDA
Wow, this is an amazing, hour-long conversation between Ben Shapiro and our Discovery Institute colleague David Berlinski. It’s today’s Sunday Special on the Ben Shapiro Show and you can watch it here on YouTube: Berlinski is wise and hilarious, and Shapiro a very fitting interlocutor. David’s new book, which forms the spine of the interview, is Human Nature, out now. I’ll have more to say on their interaction later. But in the spirit of the Fast Track program of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, hastening needed prescription medicine ahead of otherwise routine burdensome drug trial requirements, here are David and Ben right NOW, covering the philosophical and political attack on essentialism, why evolution is fundamentally at odds with a fixed nature to human beings (or dogs, or anything else…