A friend of mine asked a researcher at Anthropic whether Claude was conscious. He replied, “Are you talking about any single session of Claude, or the aggregation of ...

We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in ...

See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will ...

In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Leonard Sax joins in to discuss his book, Boys Adrift: The Six Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic ...

In a life of reading, there are special times of wonder and delight. Books come into your hands that address your central concerns and discuss matters you’ve long pondered. But they do so in fresh and ...

Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New York Times in June. The Texas State Board of Education had just approved a required reading list for K–12 ...

During the fall semester of 2013, I began to teach a new course here at Yale: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Even though the course had no track record (and therefore no student evaluations), ...

St. Paul’s Cathedral has come up with a novel way to fill the pews: It is becoming a concert venue. Under a newly inked agreement, London nightclub Fabric will be the “exclusive partner for ...

The mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier cries into the crucified Christ depicted on her son’s burial shroud. It echoes the icons here at St. Mikhail Church, a short walk from central Kyiv. As the ...

Most Americans seem to think of the major Protestant denominations as if they were founded with the names we now use. In truth, the names were often forced by circumstance and argument. The methodical ...

In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Theodore Dalrymple joins in to discuss his recent book, Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder ...

Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen seem to have had little in common. She favored rhinestones; he wore a pectoral cross (though both understood the dramatic possibilities of a cape). She sang “Jolene.” He ...