Crypto Crackup: Sam Bankman-Fried
by Mark BauerleinElizabeth Bachmann joins joins the podcast to discuss her new book Crypto Crackup: Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX, and SBF's Weird Island Empire.
God and the Bomb
by Liel LeibovitzThe best movie you’ll see this year—or, if I’m being honest, this decade—is about two men having a protracted argument about God. If you merely watch the trailer, you may walk away with the erroneous impression that Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus, is about the . . . . Continue Reading »
Oppenheimer’s Tragic Fate
by Jason M. BaxterIn Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan has taken the meticulously researched seven-hundred-page book American Prometheus and rendered it into his best film yet. Continue Reading »
The Dark Side of “Miracle Drugs”
by Peter TonguetteThe normalization of chemical substances may seem like a phenomenon peculiar to our postmodern moment, but a movie made nearly seventy years ago sounded the alarm before many of us were even born. Continue Reading »
Tyranny by Numbers
by John WatersIf a society loses its intuition of the absolute necessity for certain principles and fundamental rights, it will lose the sense and memory of how its own equilibrium has been arrived at, and thereafter descend into chaos. Continue Reading »
Superheroes? Stardust? Or Vessels of the Incarnation?
by George WeigelWe should imagine ourselves not as genetically enhanced superheroes or congealed stardust, but as the stuff from which God became incarnate among us. Continue Reading »
The Real “Anti-Science”
by Wesley J. SmithWhen Bill Nye the Science Guy complains of a war being waged on science, he should look in the mirror. Continue Reading »
Climate Change and Technocracy
by Will WilsonCards on the table, since those who dare even to broach this subject are inevitably subjected to name-calling. The ” collapsing consensus ” notwithstanding, I’m among those who believe that the earth is getting warmer, that human beings probably have something to do with it, and . . . . Continue Reading »
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