Gender
Margaret Harper McCarthy
Keeping “Biological Sex” on Solid Ground

A Re-examination of “Stereotypes.”

Keeping “Biological Sex” on Solid Ground
AI, Technology
D. C. Schindler
AI as a Very Deepfake

Bringing the dead back to life.

AI as a Very Deepfake
AI, Technology
Marc Barnes
Broken, Bleeding, Begging for Mercy

You can call it a response to Matthew Harvey Sanders.

Broken, Bleeding, Begging for Mercy
AI, Technology
Marc Barnes
Delete Magisterium AI

Magisterium AI—the Catholic chatbot that Sanders characterizes as a paver on “the Golden Path”—is bad.

Delete Magisterium AI
AI, Technology
Marc Barnes
Why Chatbots Are Female

The chatbot, by virtue of being designed to appear human, appears sexual—male or female. 

Why Chatbots Are Female

Politics

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Adam Without Liberalism

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Adam Without Liberalism

The trouble with liberalism is the trouble with all heresies—it has no idea that it is a heresy.

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Why We Can’t Have Sanctuary

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Why We Can’t Have Sanctuary

The liberal criminal has no common thing to return to.

Against Breathalyzers

Against Breathalyzers

America can often be an ugly place, but the field sobriety test is a flower of its field.

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National Forgetting

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National Forgetting

One is either of a people who forget or a people who remember.

Ghost City, USA

Ghost City, USA

Recently a YouTuber—one of us whose “You” is intimately involved with a “Tube”—meandered down to God’s Own Steubenville, Ohio.

Integralism Overlooks that St. Thomas “Speaks Formally”

Integralism Overlooks that St. Thomas “Speaks Formally”

The essential thing is not government but what government serves, which preexists and causes it: before we can have a proper government, we need a proper mind, heart, and conscience—those things in which the principles of government exist.

The Weakness of Caesar and the Power of the Cross

The Weakness of Caesar and the Power of the Cross

Christianity has always redeemed politics by surpassing it, fulfilling it beyond itself. It defeats violence through peace and not with more powerful violence. This is not to say that Christianity leaves the tyrannies of the world alone. When I say it defeats them, I mean that literally, concretely—Christianity brings tyrants to their knees. 

The Politics of David and Goliath

The Politics of David and Goliath

Goliath represents the impulse to put all our hope in man; to stockpile; to amass; to find salvation in the strength of a singular Giant. This is why Goliath is so very big. David represents the Jewish impulse to put all our hope in God. This is why he, David, is so very small.

Against Moral Progress

Against Moral Progress

Gawk at an idea with me, an idea so basic to our thought that its wackiness goes undetected: gawk upon moral progress.

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Against Naming The Generations

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Against Naming The Generations

It is stupid to name generations; furthermore, it is tasteless; also, I think it mean-spirited.

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Adrian Vermeule Against the World

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Adrian Vermeule Against the World

Understanding “political Catholicism” as a species of bossbabery sheds light on the movement as a whole.

Whose Emperor? Which empire?

Whose Emperor? Which empire?

If “the Church came to assume Roman political forms” it is equally obvious that she then came to discard them.

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Technological Security as a Problem of Social Ethics

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Technological Security as a Problem of Social Ethics

“Medietas, this living-in-the-proper-middle, is not to be confused with mediocritas, with a lukewarm mediocrity that remains simply beneath the demands placed upon man.”

The Christian Transcendence of the Right/Left Dichotomy

The Christian Transcendence of the Right/Left Dichotomy

The Right and Left are the fragments of a shattered Christianity.

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Marriage is the Form of Christian Politics

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Marriage is the Form of Christian Politics

The marriage vow says, “Virtue or death.”

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