Language is what makes culture and all human relationships possible. We are seeing a broad based decline in language--not only the loss of the ability to read and write, but the also the ability to speak, listen, communicate, comprehend, and think. Nadya Williams argues that If we allow this trend to run its course, culture will be impossible and our very humanity will be at risk.
When we read about the brutality of totalitarian regimes--the Nazis, the Soviets, the North Koreans--we can hardly believe it. How could people do such things--the re-education camps, the political executions, the extermination projects--to each other? Well, in our over-heated political and ideological polarization today, totalitarian impulses are manifesting themselves.
Baptists consider adopting the Nicene Creed. Opinions are changing on transgenderism. And taking your parents to a job interview.
Aayan Hirsi Ali draws on the work of a KGB defector who testified about Soviet tactics of subversion, that is, weakening an opposing nation from within by undermining its values and turning its people against their own institutions. She shows how the stages of subversion are playing out in the West today, even in the apparent absence of an organized adversary.
Nearly half of Generation Z and over a quarter of internet users as a whole say that they have a "double life," projecting a different identity online than in their actual lives. Is this just innocent play acting, a sinister masquerade, a kind of virtual schizophrenia, or what?
In a debate with her New Atheist mentor Richard Dawkins, ex-Muslim, ex-atheist, new Christian convert Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells more about her faith, which--contrary to what some Christians worried about--is not just the embrace of a cultural religion necessary to preserve Western civilization, but a genuine faith in Jesus Christ. And she coaxes some remarkable concessions from Dawkins.
According to Kohei Saito, capitalism creates economic growth, which puts ever-more carbon into the atmosphere. Therefore, capitalism is ultimately responsible for the climate catastrophe that awaits us.The only way to avoid that is by reversing economic growth by abandoning capitalism for communism, which can also control people to force them to curb their environmentally-ruinous behavior.
Religion is natural for human beings, says Sebastian Morello. But natural religion tends to be this-worldly, usually looking to earthly rulers as the highest authority. Christianity, on the other hand, is not a natural religion but a supernatural religion. And yet, Christianity often has to contend against the allure of the religion that is natural to us.
Setbacks in the artificial intelligence revolution. The internet comes for Amazon tribes. And pro-life protesters get long prison terms.
Even as societies have become careful not to "trigger" the suicidal but to encourage them to call suicide hotlines, where they are taught that their lives have value, the same societies are legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide, which teaches the opposite.
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