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He Died with a Microphone in His Hand

ROBERT BARRON

Charlie Kirk was engaging in a practice that goes back to Socrates and that informs the West at its best. And that is precisely why we all feel so unnerved by his death. We sense that something basic to our civilization is teetering.

B. F. Skinner Is Back

NIKOLAS PRASSAS

Today’s AI revolution came about through the resurrection of the older behaviorist paradigm, which Chomsky had seemingly destroyed in the 1950s. To adapt a phrase from the legendary AI researcher Seymour Papert, the new language machines are “behaviorism in computer’s clothing.”

A Life Worth Hacking

LIEL LEIBOVITZ

New Age affectations aside, biohacking is no laughing matter, and people of faith in particular should pay attention to the movement’s rapid growth. How rapid? The industry is expected to climb to a market size of somewhere around $70 billion by 2030.

No, DEI Does Not Mean God

JOHN M. GRONDELSKI

Some Catholics may disagree whether DEI policies comport with Catholic principles. A bishop should not, however, leave the impression that one personal political viewpoint reflects Catholic teaching.

The Torchbearer of Thomism

THOMAS JOSEPH WHITE, O.P.

It is no secret that there is a widespread revival of interest in the study of St. Thomas Aquinas, as well as medieval theology more generally. Jean-Pierre Torrell has a great deal to do with this.