I was struck by the following words from Archimandrite Maximos’ Introduction to The Mystical Marriage: Spiritual Life According to St. Maximos the Confessor, translated and edited by Archimandrite Maximos Constas: To love God…
In my column at Salvo Magazine I’ve been writing a series on artificial intelligence and robotics (full links given under “Further Reading” below). My most recent contributions, “AI Mission Creep” and “GPT-3…
Yesterday we heard Vladimir Putin address the Russian parliament, and once again he justified the war in the Ukraine as an attempt “to protect the people in our historical lands.” This has…
How many more people have to die before we wake up to the dangers of robotics? That is a question that Nicholas Carr explored in his 2015 book about automation, The Glass…
I often have occasion to return to the wisdom of Metropolitan Jonah, particularly his talk “Do Not Resent, Do not React, Keep Inner Stillness.” Here is what the retired Metropolitan has to…
In my book Rediscovering the Goodness of Creation (now available), I discuss the practical difference that resurrection makes to how we think about the body and ourselves as physical beings. From chapter…
So what is the actual disagreement regarding transgender anthropology between the right and the left? Nobody seems to know. Trans activists don’t know what they believe, social conservatives don’t know what trans…
From Byung-Chul Han’s Saving Beauty: Natural beauty is opposed to digital beauty. In digital beauty the negativity of the other is entirely removed. It is therefore perfectly smooth. It is not meant to…
In yesterday’s post, “Consumerism and the Wow Factor,” I ended by hinting that if our subjective reaction is artworks is all that matters—as indeed must be the case when the consumerist imperative…
In 2013, Jeff Koons’ sculpture, “Balloon Dog (Orange),” sold at auction for $58.4 million, the most ever paid for a sculpture by a living artist. Made from mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent…
In 1857, a group of British civilians and soldiers were brutally massacred in India following a revolt against the East India Company known as the Sepoy Rebellion. Women and children were shot,…
