The coronation of King Charles III made for great television: horsemen in breastplates and plumes; a bejeweled aristocracy and the emissaries of empire; a whiff of scandal over the royals who did and didn’t show; and a liturgy as high-church as can be. There were golden copes galore; trumpet . . . . Continue Reading »
The status of crank is rarely remitted in the span of ten years, but that is what has happened to me. I spent two decades, from 1999 to 2019, in New York City, where I watched social media and smartphones change the early adopters. My reading of Neil Postman and Marshall McLuhan convinced me that . . . . Continue Reading »
Christine Rosen joins in to discuss her new book, The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World. Continue Reading »
We have to take risks like Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and fight Big Tech all the way up to the highest court in the land. Continue Reading »
Most of us that grew up in the peripheries don’t buy the central premise of this pontificate of making the Church less European. I agree with R. R. Reno’s assertions in “Rome’s Concordat” (March 2024) that this pontificate sounds like a focus group at the World Economic Forum or a DEI . . . . Continue Reading »
Brendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla, is an example of how to lead with conviction and for the common good. Continue Reading »
The promotion and crafting of a distorted virtual reality by tech companies should concern us all. Continue Reading »
The Palo Alto suicides started in 2002, when Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto High School class of 2007 and author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, must have been in middle school. I, a year ahead in the class of 2006, was adjusting to the awkward realities of the . . . . Continue Reading »
We have no hope that we can raise the next generation to be entirely innocent of Silicon Valley’s tyrannical devices, but if we can teach them to treasure the world of books, we will keep alive in them the world of memory. Continue Reading »
Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Matthew B. Crawford to talk about his article, “The Rise of Antihumanism” from August 2023. Continue Reading »
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