Jay Wesley Richards is an American analytical philosopher who focuses on the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion.
[1] He serves as an adjunct professor in the School of Business at the Catholic University of America[2] and the executive editor of The Stream and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute.
[2] Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books,[5] 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.
[8] Science organizations then paid attention to the institute after the document was published online, but Richards wrote "that the mission statement and goals had been posted on the CRSC's website since 1996.
[10][11] In January 2008, at Stanford University, Jay Richards had a debate with a leading atheist, Christopher Hitchens, on the topic: Atheism vs. Theism and The Scientific Evidence of Intelligent Design.