Science & Technology
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When Life Ends Mid-Sentence
It was Gerstäcker’s mother. She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down…
Practitioners of Infanticide
A physician declares his dying patient—a seven-pound baby boy—“dangerous as dynamite,” a “menace to society.” A routine…
Work Is for the Worker
In these early days of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV has made one thing clear: The responsible…
Dark Phantoms
It happened quickly, so quickly that you’d think it was impossible to retain the image. The Ohio…
The Death of Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman was a Nobel laureate in economics, the author of the international bestseller Thinking, Fast and…
How to Become a Low-Tech Family
Is there a life beyond the screen? In 2010, Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows described what the internet…
The Rest as History
The Sabbath is making a comeback. Across the West, that most singular and ancient of weekly phenomena—a…
The Common Sense of John Searle
The twentieth-century philosopher Wilfrid Sellars drew an influential distinction between “the manifest image,” which is the way…
Fossilized Faith
Christian Smith, a sociologist at Notre Dame, has a knack for turning academic research into books that…
The Mediocrity of AI
Will AI evolve and supersede human intelligence, ushering in the tyranny of machines? Is the economy careering…
Wistful Agnostics and True Believers
With the death of the New Atheist industrial complex, a new variety of religion-friendly intellectual discourse has…
The Surrogacy Exploitation Crisis
“It’s horrific, it’s disturbing, it’s damaging emotionally,” said Kayla Elliot, a young woman now fighting for custody…
The Era of AI Porn Is Here
Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-owner OpenAI, recently announced that his software would soon allow users to…
Charles Murray Comes to God (ft. Charles Murray)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Charles Murray joins…
Beauty Rhymes with Death
Jan Zwicky is a Renaissance woman—a philosopher who has taught at Princeton and the University of Victoria,…
