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A Boomer, But An Augustinian: On Magnifica Humanitas
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, begins with the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9). Babel represents the grandiosity of...
Newman Against Compromise
On November 1, St. John Henry Newman will be declared a Doctor of the Church—an announcement that might seem badly timed. It’s often said that Gen Z are looking...
The Decade of Misremembering
The Nineties:A Bookby chuck klostermanpenguin, 384 pages, $28 Most people hold the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to be the beginning of the ’90s: It symbolizes an...
