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February 10, 2026
AI, Technology
D. C. Schindler
AI as a Very Deepfake

Bringing the dead back to life.

AI as a Very Deepfake
January 16, 2026
AI, Technology
Marc Barnes
Broken, Bleeding, Begging for Mercy

You can call it a response to Matthew Harvey Sanders.

Broken, Bleeding, Begging for Mercy
January 12, 2026
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
November 11, 2025
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
August 5, 2025
AI, Technology
Marc Barnes
AI Chatbots Are Evil

 For heaven’s sake—someone had to throw a first punch.

AI Chatbots Are Evil
Columba Silva
June 16, 2025

Light Pollution as Antichrist

Columba Silva
June 16, 2025
Light Pollution as Antichrist

In the heavenly city, darkness and night are dispelled by the constant radiance of God. Our earthly cities have made a parody of this.

4 Comments
Andrew Willard Jones
June 3, 2025
Nations, Politics

Is Christianity Nationalist?

Andrew Willard Jones
June 3, 2025
Nations, Politics
Is Christianity Nationalist?

The meaning of identity is the question that now roils societies.

5 Comments
Marc Barnes
March 17, 2025
Politics, Nations

National Forgetting

Marc Barnes
March 17, 2025
Politics, Nations
National Forgetting

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

6 Comments
Marc Barnes
March 4, 2025
Gender

The Dishes

Marc Barnes
March 4, 2025
Gender
The Dishes

I have been patronizing my dishwasher. I have been subsidizing its efforts.

15 Comments
Reuben Slife
February 15, 2025
Catholic Social Teaching, Politics

The Holy Father Goes to the Heart

Reuben Slife
February 15, 2025
Catholic Social Teaching, Politics
The Holy Father Goes to the Heart

Well, the pope has spoken. And the Church has lost its ever-loving mind.

32 Comments
Andrew Willard Jones
January 23, 2025
Catholic Social Teaching, Politics

The Church Against the State

Andrew Willard Jones
January 23, 2025
Catholic Social Teaching, Politics
The Church Against the State

Sovereignty is not merely a bad political ideal; it is simply, in the end, impossible.

5 Comments
Margaret Harper McCarthy
December 17, 2024
Gender

The Case for (Just) Sex Discrimination

Margaret Harper McCarthy
December 17, 2024
Gender
The Case for (Just) Sex Discrimination

For all the talk of “anti-discrimination,” current policies discriminate unjustly against actual human beings in favor of a disembodied, counterfactual “ideal.”

4 Comments
Marc Barnes
November 15, 2024
Money

Someone, Somewhere, Screwed

Marc Barnes
November 15, 2024
Money
Someone, Somewhere, Screwed

We are completely off whatever rockers we were trusted to sit on—and our condemnation of the stock market is entirely correct.

29 Comments
Caleb Estep
November 8, 2024
Money

Investing in the Stock Market Is Not Immoral: A Reply to Barnes and Imam

Caleb Estep
November 8, 2024
Money
Investing in the Stock Market Is Not Immoral: A Reply to Barnes and Imam

Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes have advocated that investing in a 401(k) or the stock market is generally immoral. I think that their view is incorrect.

9 Comments
Marc Barnes
October 18, 2024
Technology

Against Posting

Marc Barnes
October 18, 2024
Technology
Against Posting

Social media is a machine for the universalization of Posting, such that all human communication becomes a Post in its exterior form, regardless of the interior intention of the poster.

5 Comments
John Byron Kuhner
October 4, 2024
Technology

Wendell Berry and Forgiveness

John Byron Kuhner
October 4, 2024
Technology
Wendell Berry and Forgiveness

The real reformers, the ones who are most agitated about a problem, often gain their energy from the moral contradiction of being utterly implicated in the very sins they condemn.

8 Comments
Marc Barnes
September 20, 2024
Technology

Jesus, Take the Wheel

Marc Barnes
September 20, 2024
Technology
Jesus, Take the Wheel

The trouble with driving, according to Crawford, is that there isn’t enough of it.

5 Comments
Marc Barnes
September 10, 2024
AI, Technology

Oh baby! Oh organoid! Oh hell!

Marc Barnes
September 10, 2024
AI, Technology
Oh baby! Oh organoid! Oh hell!

Artificial intelligence is not a new frontier for man, but one of the oldest.

6 Comments
John C. Médaille
August 30, 2024
Money

The "Anonymous Society" vs. "The Great Workbench"

John C. Médaille
August 30, 2024
Money
The "Anonymous Society" vs. "The Great Workbench"

The failure of capitalism to live up to any of its goals can be traced to shareholding, the level of abstraction it represents, and the shift in economic purpose it demands.

3 Comments
Marc Barnes
August 22, 2024
AI, Technology

Bureau-chatGPT

Marc Barnes
August 22, 2024
AI, Technology
Bureau-chatGPT

Love and truth are neither expected nor (typically) desired from bureaucrats or chatbots.

10 Comments
Marc Barnes
August 13, 2024
Technology

No Character

Marc Barnes
August 13, 2024
Technology
No Character

The trouble with a technological age is that people are increasingly shapeless.

11 Comments
Marc Barnes
August 9, 2024
Politics

Ghost City, USA

Marc Barnes
August 9, 2024
Politics
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.

8 Comments
Marc Barnes
July 30, 2024
Technology

Counterproductivity

Marc Barnes
July 30, 2024
Technology
Counterproductivity

We will either become Catholic or remain counterproductive.

8 Comments
Brad Bursa
April 22, 2024
Technology

Beyond Transhumanism: Benedict XVI, the Resurrection, and Our Humanity

Brad Bursa
April 22, 2024
Technology
Beyond Transhumanism: Benedict XVI, the Resurrection, and Our Humanity

The transhumanist attempts, through innovative technology, to postpone or overcome biological fragility and curate a kind of eternal body.

4 Comments
Marc Barnes
April 11, 2024
Gender, Technology

Barrier Methods

Marc Barnes
April 11, 2024
Gender, Technology
Barrier Methods

Plastic “makes” a thing present to all and yet seals it within itself, which is of course, the liberal description of the self.

6 Comments
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