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Is Ownership Over? June 25, 2025
It’s 2009. The bedside lamp’s warm, incandescent glow spreads a soft light over the master bedroom. Your wife breathes quietly next to you, already asleep. You’ve been reading through a list of modern “classics” — on tonight’s docket is a continuatio...
How Britney Spears Ushered in a New Era of Pop June 17, 2025
The dawn of the twenty-first century was characterized, primarily, by something that did not happen. I have some fuzzy recollections of Y2K, the panic at the end of the 1990s that ensued after a handful of computer scientists raised concerns that the...
The Manosphere Meets Its Match June 16, 2025
It’s fair to say that the manosphere — the constellation of weight-lifters, men’s-rights gurus, and anti-feminist YouTubers — occupies a central space in the culture. Masculinity influencers command audiences in the tens of millions, shaping how boys...
Welcome to the Era of AI Doping June 11, 2025
Earlier this month, Ohio State University unveiled its new “AI Fluency Program,” a campus-wide initiative designed to ensure that every student graduates fluent in artificial intelligence. Not merely familiar—fluent. The message is unmistakable: Usi...
Who’s Afraid of the Anti-God? June 11, 2025
There is a memorable scene in the first installment of the final Mission: Impossible film where thousands of government workers sit in a huge room transferring digital files to plain white paper using old-fashioned typewriters. A super-intelligent al...
Surveillance Therapy June 10, 2025
Since Edward Snowden’s revelations about mass surveillance, the topic has lost significance. But our surveillance architecture has only grown more steadily.We have become accustomed to being recorded through data-gathering because the digital power s...
Stop All the Clocks by Noah Kumin June 09, 2025
A Thrilling Debut that Explores the Profound Mysteries of Life in the Digital AgeMona Veigh was feeling burnt out from the tech world—and life in general. Following the death of her unconventional colleague, Avram Parr, and the collapse of her AI com...
The Californian Ideology in Ruins June 02, 2025
Richard Barbrook is a British media scholar best known for co-authoring “The Californian Ideology,” a seminal and highly prescient 1995 study of what they described as the “bizarre fusion of the cultural bohemianism of San Francisco with the hi-tech ...
Beware Digital Sanctity March 07, 2025
With Lent beginning on Ash Wednesday, many Christians will be trying to go up a spiritual gear for the 40-days between now and Easter. This usually means prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Just a few years ago, at least for a Catholic like me, these wo...
