Wifejak, Icon of the Normal
by Sohrab AhmariWifejak is silly and a little annoying and painfully normal—and she’s endearing in the extreme not in spite of these qualities, but precisely because of them. Continue Reading »
Keep the Stigma Against Suicide
by Ashley FrawleyThe stigma served an important function. It reminded us of the value of being human—not just our biological lives, but the unique capacities that make us human. Continue Reading »
Screens and Sacraments
by Anthony R. LusvardiThe 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 Myth of Technological Neutrality
by Michael ToscanoThe 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 »
We Are More Alone than Ever
by Mark BauerleinChristine Rosen joins in to discuss her new book, The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World. Continue Reading »
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Against Smartphones
by Michael ToscanoWe 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 »
Letters
by VariousMost 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 »
The Anti-Fragile Brendan Eich
by Andrew BeckBrendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla, is an example of how to lead with conviction and for the common good. Continue Reading »
The World that Google Wants to See
by Michael ToscanoThe promotion and crafting of a distorted virtual reality by tech companies should concern us all. Continue Reading »
Ambitious Nihilism
by Inez StepmanThe 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 »
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