YouTube and the Yearning for God

by Thomas Piolata

The algorithm behind YouTube's short videos is distracting men and women from thinking deeply. Continue Reading »

17 Jan 2024

Working for Church Renewal

by Jayd Henricks

Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal explores ways technology might serve the bishops in addressing their greatest challenges. I’ve been proud to be a part of that group. Continue Reading »

8 Mar 2023

The Decade of Misremembering

by Jacob Phillips

Chuck Klosterman's new book shows how the emergence of the internet has altered our cultural remembrance of the '90s. Continue Reading »

8 Nov 2022

Virtually Disconnected

by James A. Hamel

Just as we don’t want science or warfare to be unmoored from ethics and morality, we should likewise insist that technology remain tethered to a proper understanding of human nature. Continue Reading »

18 Apr 2022

The Prayers of Big Data

by Samuel D. James

The selling of user data in a prayer app is a wonderfully concise illustration of what emerges victorious when e-commerce and piety collide. Continue Reading »

15 Feb 2022

Is There Hope for Gen Z?

by Elizabeth Bachmann

At root, Gen Z’s obsession with identity is a perverted but genuine pursuit of truth in a world that obscures it. Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2022

Into the Metaverse

by Samuel D. James

For nearly a decade, Facebook has been shifting the company away from an ethos of connecting real people and toward a kind of permanent digital habitation, the contraction of life so as to fit inside algorithms.  Continue Reading »

16 Nov 2021

Stigmatize Social Media

by Samuel D. James

Regulation of social media companies is a good idea, but the wisest, most plausible, and also most effective option is not law, but stigma. Continue Reading »

8 Oct 2021

The Social Cost of Online Dating

by Anna Bonta Moreland

Dating apps lead young people to settle for a quick fix, a temporary satiation of a deep, human desire to love and be loved, to know and be known. Continue Reading »

4 Oct 2021

For Pope Francis, the Mass is the Message

by Raymond J. de Souza

The old Mass has been done down by new technology. Continue Reading »

20 Jul 2021