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 »
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 »
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