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The Era of AI Porn Is Here

Samuel D. James

Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-owner OpenAI, recently announced that his software would soon allow users to generate erotic content. On X, Altman posted: โ€œIn December, as we roll...

Tyler Robinson and the Violence of Porn

Samuel D. James

Multiple media outlets have reported that Tyler Robinson, the alleged murderer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was an avid consumer of pornography. The Daily Mail relays that Robinson was...

The Children Who Kill Children

Samuel D. James

Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, was thirty-six when he began his bombing campaign. Charles Manson was likely at least that age at the onset of his murders. John Allen...

Five Rules for Living Faithfully in the Digital Age

Samuel D. James

Conservative Christians are overdue for some hopeful predictions about the future of American culture, so hereโ€™s one: I believe that my childrenโ€™s generation will be significantly less addicted to...

The Prayers of Big Data

Samuel D. James

These days itโ€™s hard to surprise anybody with revelations about our compromised privacy in the Internet age. Nonetheless, I was still taken aback by a recent BuzzFeed investigation into...

Into the Metaverse

Samuel D. James

Itโ€™s fitting that Mark Zuckerbergโ€™s company is no longer defined by the concept of social networks, but by an alternate reality altogether. Facebook recently announced it is changing its...

Stigmatize Social Media

Samuel D. James

For a few hours on October 4, the developed world experienced a temporary increase in emotional health and psychological peace. The reason? Facebook crashed. A major error in the...

OnlyFans and the Sexual Revolution

Samuel D. James

A few years ago I read a fascinating report from a journalist who had attended an โ€œAdult Entertainment Convention.โ€ He noted that there were hundreds of male fans waiting in...

The Illusion of Porn โ€œLiteracyโ€

Samuel D. James

Contemporary progressivism faces a pressing dilemma. It must continue the sexual revolutionโ€™s legacy of free love and sex-positivity, but it must do so in a Pornhub age, in which...

Homeschoolers and Ideologues

Samuel D. James

Harvard professor Elizabeth Bartholetโ€™s attack on homeschooling is the kind of argument that would, if a few nouns were changed, be right at home in the very fundamentalist subcultures...

The Pro-Life Movement Isn’t About Trump

Samuel D. James

Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church.โ€ So counsels the demon Screwtape to his junior tempter Wormwood, encouraging the inexperienced devil to avoid...

The HR-ification of the Public Square

Samuel D. James

Kevin Williamsonโ€™s firing from the Atlantic has become that most annoying of cultural metaphors: the Rorschach test. Those who believe that the episode epitomizes journalismโ€™s bias against conservatives point...

Purity and Prejudice

Samuel D. James

The sexual revolution has a well-known masculine bias. Though feminists have won real battles, the outcome of the war has never been in doubt. Unmooring sexuality from the home,...

Pornography Is Worse than Feminism

Samuel D. James

I understand what Ben Domenech is trying to say in his eulogy for Hugh Hefner, but Iโ€™m afraid he has strained out the gnat and swallowed the rabbit. Domenech...