For Americans, the 1990s are both the most sharply defined and the most fuzzily understood of modern decades. The nineties began on 11/9/1989, with the breaching of the Berlin Wall by East Germans—a symbolic repudiation of communism and a glorious American victory in the Cold War. They ended . . . . Continue Reading »
The battle for the status of the body is as much a battle for the imagination as it is for doctrine. Continue Reading »
Austen Givens joins the podcast to discuss “big data” and how the nation protects itself against ever-multiplying cyber threats. Continue Reading »
Science doesn’t provide a comprehensive, indisputable account of reality. That doesn’t make it useless, but it does mean we’ll misuse science so long as we misconstrue what it is and isn’t. Continue Reading »
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 »
A philosopher’s unproductive morning reveals a disturbing relationship between contemplation and modern technology. Continue Reading »
My childhood religious education was, you might say, haphazard. I met many of the most famous Bible verses for the first time not in church, or through a family member, but in Handel’s Messiah, which I listened to so many times as a youth that I memorized much of the libretto. But somewhat . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are two forthcoming books that are worth reading not only for themselves but also for the larger conversations they represent. Continue Reading »
The multiverse is upon us! Everywhere you turn in popular culture these days, it seems like the world is not enough: From hit TV shows to blockbuster films, plot lines run through multiple parallel realities, a cosmic cornucopia that invites us to feast on “what-ifs” and “if-thens.” . . . . Continue Reading »
In the first, surreal weeks of the lockdowns of 2020, we all marveled at how COVID had hit at just the right time. Thanks to our Silicon Valley saviors, we had the perfect technologies to shift all “nonessential” activities and gatherings into virtual space. Zoom, which few of us had heard of in . . . . Continue Reading »
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