Twenty years ago, at the moment of its IPO announcement, the most powerful company in the world declared that “Don’t Be Evil” would be the orchestrating principle of its executive strategy. How did Google intend not to be evil? By doing “good things” for the world, its IPO document . . . . Continue Reading »
These reflections, gentle but piercing in their spiritual psychology, were originally given as an Easter retreat for the Community of the Holy Cross, an Anglican Benedictine convent, in 2018. With typical deftness, Rowan Williams both channels the insights of the Desert Fathers and quietly . . . . Continue Reading »
As has become distressingly clear, many people blame the Israelis for the atrocities that Hamas terrorists perpetrated on Saturday, October 7, against hundreds of civilians, including women and children, across southern Israel. The Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee, along with many . . . . Continue Reading »
Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Moral Wisdom of the Catholic Church: A Defense of Her Controversial Moral Teachings. Continue Reading »
Futurists exclaim that brain-integrated, silicon-based “hardware” memory will be used to augment our natural memories. Count me unimpressed. Continue Reading »
A great talent for friendship across the divides of race and class informed Bob Andrews’s fiction even as it enriched his life and the lives of those drawn into his ample orbit. Continue Reading »