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The boldest part of Leo’s first encyclical is about war, not artificial intelligence.
J. D. Vance’s ‘Communion’ and Lena Dunham’s ‘Famesick’ are two sequels to splashy, confessional memoirs by millennial authors. Only one of them is fun to read.

‘Plastered Saint’

"To be well known, even in as small a pond as the intellectual life, can be gratifying. Like most other pleasures, however, it also has its problems."
The Catholic Church was made for this moment. Its intellectual tradition can make a forceful stand for human dignity as AI accelerates.
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Is our collective refusal to remember and grieve the deaths caused by the pandemic contributing to a rightward lurch in our politics?
The late Robert Coles spent years meeting subjects where they were, from the first integrated classrooms to migrant farms to the Appalachian mountains.
Russia’s war in Ukraine may go down in history as the beginning of a new era of industrial warfare—with AI-powered drones at the center.