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The tech-rationalist phenomenon “SlutCon” caused quite a stir online, perhaps predictably. SlutCon was a multi-day retreat and series of workshops, held in the East Bay in late September and...

A friend of mine asked a researcher at Anthropic whether Claude was conscious. He replied, “Are you talking about any single session of Claude, or the aggregation of all...

How would you write a public letter that you know will become front-page news? Would you write it yourself, or would you have a team of lawyers or a public relations firm write it for you?...

After a Massachusetts jury failed to convict Lindsay Clancy of strangling her three small children to death with exercise bands, a friend texted me in disbelief...

”We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, registered his awe at King Lear...

In his weekly catecheses on Vatican II, Pope Leo is now discussing Gaudium et Spes, one of the more controversial conciliar documents. Critics charged that, by revising its earlier...

In 1976, a freshman congressman from Illinois named Henry Hyde attached a single sentence to the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, declaring: “None...

The Stade de France, the country’s largest soccer stadium, holds about 80,000 fans. On Friday, September 25, it was filled with young Catholics. Pope Leo entered to sounds of...

The now-ubiquitous terms “reproductive health” and “reproductive freedom” have contributed mightily to a slaughter of the innocents in these United States. The death toll from that massacre is now...

Is baptism an irreversible spiritual and ontological change or a piece of recorded personal data to be deleted on demand? That is the question currently before the European Court...

On September 4, the judge declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, the result of one holdout juror who prevented a verdict of not guilty by reason of...

In 1966, Philip Rieff wrote in The Triumph of the Therapeutic that “Religious man was born to be saved; psychological man is born to be pleased.” At some point we crossed a threshold...

Economic populists often tell a version of this story: In the working-class heyday that was the post–World War II economic model, a man could put a roof over his...

We think the political world is divvied up into nearly two hundred distinct nations, each with mappable boundaries, a unified political system, a shared language and culture, and a...

On September 20, the Daily Mail ran a story with the provocative headline, “Our 83-year-old Christian grandmother was euthanised against her will under Canada’s assisted dying system—she died covered...