Over the last few years, the term “Christian Nationalism” has increasingly been used by commentators on the Left as a cudgel to scare political moderates away from right-wing populism. For much of the Trump administration, a more common rhetorical weapon was the phrase “white nationalists,” which served to insinuate that anyone who happened to be […]
The social norms that coalesce around the concepts of childhood and adulthood have changed over time. For much of recorded history, children had comparatively little value in the eyes of adults. In preindustrial eras when families were much bigger than they are today, it was much harder for a family to procure sufficient resources to […]
Google-employed AI ethicist Blake Lemoine made news this month when he leaked a profoundly disturbing “conversation” that he had with Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot program called LaMDA (an acronym for “Language Model for Dialogue Applications”). In short, this technology aims to produce computer intelligence that is capable of text-based language use that is indistinguishable from […]
This month marks twenty-five years since the theatrical release of Chasing Amy, a romantic tragicomedy that marked the highest level of thematic and cinematic sophistication achieved by north-Jersey auteur Kevin Smith. Prior to Chasing Amy, Smith’s work played like a paean to Gen X suburban lore, peppered with dick jokes and allusions to popular culture. […]
Lent is an annual period of a little more than a month that precedes Easter on the Christian calendar. Easter, of course, is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Lent represents a spiritual preparation for that celebration: it is a period of personal repentance. The fact that these details must be clarified for […]
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