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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    Supreme Court Defends Girls Sports in a Win That Stops Short of the Finish Line

    Jay Richards
    For years, American girls have lined up at the starting blocks only to lose races, scholarships, and records to males who “identify” as females. This morning, the Supreme Court finally said the obvious out loud: Schools can keep girls’ teams for girls. In a 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J., the court upheld laws…
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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
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    Did American Academy of Pediatrics Just Blink on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ or Bluff?

    Jay Richards
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    Pride Month Jumps the Shark

    Jay Richards
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    Janet Yellen Is Wrong. Protecting Life Could Never Damage the Economy.

    Rachel Greszler | Jay Richards
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    UN Exploits Climate Change Concerns to Push Contraception, Population Control

    Grace Melton | Jay Richards