Jay Richards

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Jay W. Richards, PhD, is vice president of social and domestic policy and the William E. Simon senior research fellow in American principles and public policy at The Heritage Foundation.

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BIOGRAPHY

Jay W. Richards, PhD, is vice president of social and domestic policy and the William E. Simon senior research fellow in American principles and public policy at The Heritage Foundation. He is also a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute.

Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers “Infiltrated” (2013) and “Indivisible” (2012); “The Human Advantage”; “Money, Greed, and God,” winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; “The Hobbit Party” with Jonathan Witt; and “Eat, Fast, Feast.” His most recent book, with James Robison, is “Fight the Good Fight: How an Alliance of Faith and Reason Can Win the Culture War.”

He is also creator and executive producer of several documentaries, including three that have appeared widely on PBS.

Richards’ articles and essays have been published in the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Washington Post, New York Post, Newsweek, Forbes, Fox News, National Review Online, The Hill, Investor’s Business Daily, Washington Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Huffington Post, The Federalist, Daily Caller, and many other publications.

His work has been covered widely in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, Nature, Science, Astronomy, Physics Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Congressional Quarterly Researcher.

Richards has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs, including “Larry King Live” (CNN), “CBS Evening News,” MSNBC, “Huckabee,” “Dayside,” “Fox and Friends,” “Studio B with Shepard Smith” (Fox News), Glenn Beck TV, PBS, CBN, TBN, and is a regular guest on EWTN.

An experienced public speaker, he has spoken at academic conferences; college and university campuses in the United States, Europe, and Asia; many think tanks in the U.S. and Europe; public policy meetings; and on several occasions to members of the U.S. Congress and U.S. congressional staff. His 2008 debate at Stanford University with Christopher Hitchens, moderated by Ben Stein, was broadcast live to several hundred churches in North America.

Summary

Jay W. Richards is a senior policy researcher at The Heritage Foundation and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, where he focuses on public policy and American principles.

He is the author of many books, including several bestselling and award-winning titles, and has also produced documentaries that have aired on PBS.

Richards is a frequent writer and speaker whose work has appeared in major media outlets, and he has been featured on national television, radio programs, and at conferences around the world.

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    America’s Chronic Disease Crisis Is Largely Man-Made—and Reversible

    Jay Richards
    Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has done many things in a year and a half in office. But perhaps none is more important than highlighting our man-made chronic disease crisis. Modern life has brought countless blessings. Clean water, sewage systems, antibiotics, refrigeration, and more have tamed many deadly diseases. In the…
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    What Would a Truly Independent AI Watchdog Look Like?

    Jay Richards
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    Wolves in White Coats: HHS Exposes the Racket Behind ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

    Jay Richards
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    Why Is the Archdiocese of Washington Less Protective of Religious Liberty Than Maryland?

    Arina Grossu Agnew | Jay Richards
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    Supreme Court Defends Girls Sports in a Win That Stops Short of the Finish Line

    Jay Richards
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    Pope Leo’s Message in ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ Is One We All Need to Hear

    Jay Richards
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    America Won’t Lose the AI Race for Lack of Ideas—but We Might Lose It for Lack of Compute

    Jay Richards
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    We Built the Statue: With AI, We Must Avoid the Pygmalion Delusion

    Jay Richards
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    Why Did President Trump Get an mRNA COVID-19 Shot? 

    David Gortler | Jay Richards
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    Protecting the Unborn Means Restoring Marriage and Family

    Jay Richards | Elizabeth Weiss
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    To Make American Healthy Again, the Country Needs a More Nuanced Farming Policy

    Jennifer Galardi | Jay Richards
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    A MAGA/MAHA Coalition Could Realign American Politics

    Jay Richards
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    Rikers Rape Case Shows Female Prisoners Are Voiceless Victims of Gender Ideology

    Jay Richards
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    UN Report Castigates Religion for Stymieing the Sexual Orientation-Gender Identity Agenda

    Grace Melton | Jay Richards
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    San Francisco’s Perverse Incentive to Identify as Transgender

    Jay Richards | Jamie Bryan Hall
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    Michigan’s Radical Proposition 3 Ballot Measure Would Go Far Beyond Just Codifying Roe v. Wade

    Jay Richards | Emma Waters