Science & Technology
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Why the Church Must Lead the Tech Age
Tomorrow’s leaders are no longer just presidents, prime ministers, or generals. Power to shape society is shifting…
The AI Cheating Epidemic
Last spring, some of my graduating seniors felt obligated to take me aside before graduation, as if…
Faith Before Technology
How should Christians, in light of their faith, think about the recent explosion in the application of…
Kids Need the Classics
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
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
About twenty years ago, a lecturer in philosophy stopped by my office in the Engineering Faculty. He…
The Right to Be Killed
In the days surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., leaders of the civil rights movement…
Math Is Erotic
The most shining moment of my education as a physics major at UC Santa Barbara came in…
The Best of Us Is Medieval
It has long been a custom among commentators that, when looking for a comparator that will blacken…
Abolishing Ourselves
Anyone who doubts that the abolition of man is a present-day reality need only look at the…
While We’re At It
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
In this episode, Clare Morell joins R. R. Reno in the First Things office to talk about…
Automating the Human Mind
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
Recently, Pope Leo XIV delivered a personal message to Silicon Valley executives, academics, and Vatican officials gathered…
SCOTUS Takes on Big Porn
Twenty-one years ago, five black-robed justices ruled that adults’ rights to effortlessly view hardcore pornography trumped children’s…