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Why the Church Must Lead the Tech Age

Artur Kluz

Tomorrow’s leaders are no longer just presidents, prime ministers, or generals. Power to shape society is shifting…

The AI Cheating Epidemic

Jeremy S. Adams

Last spring, some of my graduating seniors felt obligated to take me aside before graduation, as if…

Faith Before Technology

Michael Wilkerson

How should Christians, in light of their faith, think about the recent explosion in the application of…

Kids Need the Classics

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Nathan Antiel joins in…

The Fight to Stop Euthanasia for Mental Illness

Jonathon Van Maren

In 2010, twenty-one-year-old Andrew Lawton attempted suicide by swallowing a bottle’s worth of pills in a public…

Engineers for the Gospel

Edmund G. Seebauer

About twenty years ago, a lecturer in philosophy stopped by my office in the Engineering Faculty. He…

The Right to Be Killed

Matthew Burdette

In the days surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., leaders of the civil rights movement…

Math Is Erotic

Matthew B. Crawford

The most shining moment of my education as a physics major at UC Santa Barbara came in…

The Best of Us Is Medieval

John Duggan

It has long been a custom among commentators that, when looking for a comparator that will blacken…

Abolishing Ourselves

Carl R. Trueman

Anyone who doubts that the abolition of man is a present-day reality need only look at the…

While We’re At It

R. R. Reno

St. Augustine on our final end: “We shall rest and see, see and love, love and praise.”

A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones

R. R. Reno

In this episode, Clare Morell joins R. R. Reno in the First Things office to talk about…

Automating the Human Mind

Michael Toscano

It’s striking how little turmoil the dawn of AI is causing at top universities across the country.…

Why the Catholic Church’s Voice on AI Could Be the Most Consequential

Theresa Payton

Recently, Pope Leo XIV delivered a personal message to Silicon Valley executives, academics, and Vatican officials gathered…

SCOTUS Takes on Big Porn

Brad Littlejohn

Twenty-one years ago, five black-robed justices ruled that adults’ rights to effortlessly view hardcore pornography trumped children’s…