Science & Technology
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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…
How Commercial Surrogacy Targets Military Families
Military wives constitute less than 1 percent of the American population, and they make up between 15…
AI Is Not the Culprit
I have a confession to make: I use AI chatbots. A lot. I ask them questions about…
Has Freya India Cracked the Commodification Problem?
The myth of Narcissus tells of a beautiful young man’s obsession with his own image, captured in…
On Aliens and Our Alienation from God
The Department of War recently released dozens of files, dating back to the 1940s, of UFO sightings.…
AI and the Miracle that Makes Us Human
It occurred to me recently, like a lit match in a black vault, that I’ve never been…
Microplastics in Our Souls
The Last Men:Liberalism and the Death of Masculinityby charles cornish-daleregnery, 288 pages, $32.99 Charles Cornish-Dale, who posts…
How Science Killed Materialism
At the beginning of the twentieth century, materialists could feel triumphant. The four preceding centuries had yielded…
Protecting Kids Online Doesn’t Threaten Speech or Parental Rights
Two misconceptions have been circulating since last week’s landmark ruling in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., which…
The Spiritual Windfall of AI
The twentieth century was not particularly kind to blue-collar workers—or God. The Industrial Revolution and the stock…
