Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is Editor-at-Large with The Stream. He is also the William E. Simon senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society 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 Douglas Axe and William Briggs is The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe. He has a Ph.D., with honors, in philosophy and theology from Princeton Theological Seminary.
This June in The Federalist, I argued that young people who want a successful career should not follow their passion. I offer a longer version of this argument in The Human Advantage. I’m trying to counter the near-universal counsel to…
