3 weeks ago
The Faces of AI
In the titanic dispute between humans and robots—a confrontation that never ceases to astonish us and that grows daily with new and unprecedented moral dilemmas—what stands out is the need …
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4 weeks ago
Under an Open Sky
Man is an animal. But not just any animal. “Man does not live by bread alone.” He is a desiring creature. He is never content with the earthly here and …
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1 month ago
The Unbearable Heaviness of Being a Hollywood Liberal: Zootopia 2
In Zootopia 2 (Jared Bush & Byron Howard, 2025), Hollywood once again entrusts its political intuitions to animals, as though nonhuman faces could soften the blows of contentious themes. The …
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1 month ago
My Spiritual Journey from Roman Catholicism to Élan Vitalism
Deharbe’s Catechism, which I was taught from an early age, begins thus:
Q: Who made you? A: God made me. Q: And why did God make you? A: To …
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2 months ago
The Idea of “AI Slop” Is Slop
I was recently in Naples for a conference, a marvelous city that I like to think of as “the Italy of Italy.” In one of its countless souvenir shops, most …
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