In principle, there is nothing wrong with a state legislature and governor officially recognizing new holidays, and while a lot of Americans have a very bad impression of Islam, one can argue that the best way to integrate immigrant groups is to embrace them and incorporate people who are “outsiders” into the larger culture […]

Robby Starbuck, the conservative activist who has pushed a bunch of large companies to backtrack on their DEI commitments, is suing Meta for defamation over claims the company’s AI has been making about him. He discovered this by accident when a company he had criticized apparently used Meta’s AI to find out about him […]

The sheer impact of St. Augustine upon the life of the Church, of the emerging medieval world he had a hand in shaping, has never been equaled. Perhaps the first and most obvious thing to be said about St. Augustine, the span of whose life was close to eighty years—from A.D. 354 to 430—is that he […]

Every Alleluia that we omit during Lent we make up for during the Easter season. By my count, on an ordinary weekday, we friars typically employ the word Alleluia about 13 times in our common prayers. When Lent comes, we omit all of these Alleluias. Then, in what may seem like a dramatic overcorrection, on […]

Any sane person with an IQ above 85 and below 120 knew that Joe Biden’s brain was turning to oatmeal as early as 2019.  Most people whose IQ fell above 125 knew it too, but many used their intelligence to invent reasons not to believe the obvious. The ability to suffer from cognitive dissonance […]