Western Civilization

ChatGPT Is the Serpent in the Garden of Eden 0
- Culture, Featured, Science, Western Civilization
- July 28, 2026
A 29-year-old mother committed suicide by walking into oncoming traffic after allegedly being encouraged to do so by ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. Her family is suing the company, pointing to a dark relationship the troubled woman, Christian Faith Madison, developed with the AI robot. In Madison’s parasocial relationship, as with many others that
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The Arts Are Healthier Than You Think 0
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Western Civilization
- July 27, 2026
In “A Pattern Language,” Christopher Alexander and his co-authors write that, when choosing a building site on a piece of land, most people pick the healthiest, sunniest, most beautiful place they can find – a mountain meadow, a clearing next to a stream. Alexander and his co-authors argue for the opposite. You should build on
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The Case for Great Men 0
- Culture, Featured, Health, Western Civilization
- July 27, 2026
No man is an island, it’s said. On the one hand, I would have to agree. One of the most pernicious intellectual weeds is the myth of the individual, the idea that men arrive in this world as blank slates. Individualism only seems plausible to childless men who have forgotten their parents. Men, in fact,
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Is Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ a Christian Story?0
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, History, Religion, Western Civilization
- July 27, 2026
Despite living approximately 750 years before the birth of Jesus, Homer’s “Odyssey” continues to resonate with audiences today. Only a handful of stories in the Western canon can claim to have this sort of universality and longevity. The other story that is certainly comparable to, and even surpasses the “Odyssey,” is the one told in
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Thank God I’m American 0
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Western Civilization
- July 14, 2026
With the 250th anniversary of our country behind us, I’ve been left with a lot of patriotism. It can be easy to focus on the negatives, but when we fix our gaze on gratitude, the solution to this pessimism is all the more evident. The American Way My small-town home is filled with good people,
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Using Aristotle’s 3 Principles of Logic to Advance Our Knowledge 0
- Featured, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- July 14, 2026
One of the big questions emerging from the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is what exactly it means to know something at all. While advanced AI models can present the appearance of knowledge and understanding, scratching below the conversational surface shows that these models severely lack the capacity for what philosophers have considered knowledge. The
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