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  • The Shrinking Truth Horizon

    The Shrinking Truth Horizon0

    In a recent article for Plough, Paul Kingsnorth posed the following question: “How long will it be, after all, before AI manipulation means that we cannot trust anything we read, see, or hear online? Months? A year?” Already, AI can generate text, audio, and video that can only barely be distinguished from human-produced content. “Deep fakes” abound.

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  • The Shirking Pandemic: How Politicians Pass the Buck

    The Shirking Pandemic: How Politicians Pass the Buck0

    An elderly couple in my home state of North Carolina, married for over fifty years, has been forcibly separated by their nursing home for three months. The husband, now despondent, says he doesn’t want to live anymore if he can’t be with his bride. When pressed about this inhumane policy by a North Carolina legislator

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  • The Shakespeare Forger Who Duped England

    The Shakespeare Forger Who Duped England0

    William Henry Ireland was born in London in 1777 (or 1775, records vary), the son of a British author and engraver. Ireland came of age during what can be called a Shakespeare craze. Though he was considered a poor student—one teacher deemed him so stupid that he told Ireland’s father, Samuel, not to bother bringing

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  • The Sexual Revolution’s Unwanted Progeny

    The Sexual Revolution’s Unwanted Progeny0

    A few months ago, I wrote about the sexual revolution that needs to happen, but won’t. Partly because the more powerful can, and often do, elicit grudging “consent” from the less powerful, seeing mutual consent as the sole moral criterion for sexual interactions is problematic. That’s one of the sexual revolution’s unwanted progeny. We need

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  • The Sexual Revolution That Needs to Happen, But Won’t

    The Sexual Revolution That Needs to Happen, But Won’t0

    Adults of a certain age know that something called “the sexual revolution” happened in the 1960s, soon after the anovulant birth-control pill was invented and marketed. As liberal religion writer Elizabeth Bruenig puts it in an interesting new article about the #MeToo movement: “The sexual revolution made a vast number of previously unavailable sexual choices

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  • The Seven Worst Ideas for Regulation This Century

    The Seven Worst Ideas for Regulation This Century0

    Many good things have happened both in the United States and worldwide this century. In the U.S., we have the lowest unemployment rate in half a century. Worldwide prosperity is growing so fast that the rate of extreme poverty fell by half between 1990 and 2015, five years ahead of the World Bank’s optimistic goal.

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