3+ hour, 9+ min ago  (152+ words) In the future, everyone will know the grief of Garry Kasparov. The Russian grandmaster was bested by the chess-playing computer Deep Blue in 1997. No human competitor since then has made a plausible run at taking the title back." When our…...

3+ hour, 9+ min ago  (1646+ words) And they come to us at a time when the moral fabric of our national life is already badly frayed. The greatest test of our age is to repair that fabric and reclaim the moral vision that binds us together…...

3+ hour, 9+ min ago  (249+ words) That, however, doesn't change the brutal reality of his situation: namely, the virtual certainty that he will die in jail, having never been restored to his family, unless Emperor Xi lets him go into exile. For several years now, well-informed…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (244+ words) While this may not be an urgent problem for Yeats scholars, it does present a difficulty for an institution with teaching authority like the Church. The integrity of doctrine depends on the precision with which it is stated. Hallucinations'the standard…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (116+ words) Nonetheless, the Council of State stated that the video could "disturb the conscience of women who, in accordance with the law, have made personal life choices." The faces of children with Down syndrome were banned from TV, just as they…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (540+ words) The first encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIV has been engaged widely on its substance, but its manner of presentation was also noteworthy'and likely contributed to how much attention it received." Those questions will eventually get asked, and it is…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (119+ words) And so we come full circle. Our way of doing economics has contributed to our cultural malaise, which can be healed only if we're willing, like Jacob, to be wounded. To that paradoxical cure, Bruni proposes, the Bible can make…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (142+ words) The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagionby luke burgisst. martin's press, 288 pages, $30 But Burgis both avoids heavy-handed proselytizing and refuses to water down religious truths to make them more palatable. Driven by his earnest…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (147+ words) As America approaches its 250th birthday, it would do well to remember that the emblematic figure of the second half of the twentieth century had such high hopes for us: hopes that now seem a call to a national examination of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (126+ words) Here lies a real danger for those committed to "evangelizing the culture." How does the Church reach out to actual people? Are we evangelizing "the culture" because it is less messy than dealing with individuals and families? Culture, whatever its…...