Science & Technology
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Mad as Hell
In a simpler time, the internet was full of cats. Flooding message boards and YouTube with images…
The Enemy Within
The Information State is one of the most important books of the twenty-first century. In a virtuoso…
Letters—August/September 2026
My first thought on “Boomer–Zoomer Housing War” by Carmel Richardson was the title; my second thought after…
Left to Our Own Devices
Hiding in most of our pockets is a shiny black mirror with a logo on the back…
While We’re At It
In my meditation on the legacy of World War II above, I conclude with an observation about…
Prisoners of Our Own Devices
To Arrive Where We Started:Belonging in the Modern World by ian marcus corbinyale university press, 200 pages, $32.50…
The Seduction of Simulation
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on technology and the human person, Magnifica Humanitas, offers a measured assessment of…
Is Britain’s Social Media Ban a Trojan Horse for Censorship?
My mother is fond of saying that children spell love T-I-M-E, by which she means they have…
The Church of Claude
In this episode, First Things senior editor Dan Hitchens joins Virginia and Germán to discuss Magnifica Humanitas.…
The American Covenant’s Answer to AI
Artificial intelligence is testing our commitment to the great moral covenant that binds us together as a…
Beware the Benedict Bot
The words of a dead man / Are modified in the guts of the living.” Neither W.…
The Genesis of Economics
We live, writes Italian economist Luigino Bruni in his The Economy of Salvation, in an exhausted age…
Magnifica Humanitas Refounds Catholic Social Teaching
The measure of Magnifica Humanitas cannot be taken today, so soon after its release. We won’t know…
Magnifica Humanitas, a Missed Opportunity?
At nearly 43,000 words, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in…
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…
