The brutal attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians were shocking. Also shocking was the cheering of many Americans and Europeans--not just Arab immigrants but also college professors, teenagers, and the non-Jewish progressive left--to those attacks. Gabriel Brahm, with the help of René Girard, helps us understand why radicals love violence.
Elon Musk says that Artificial Intelligence plus advanced robotics will eliminate the need for people to work, allowing for limitless abundance for all without the need for human labor. What would that do to the economy? What would that mean for vocation?
Conservatives who repudiate the Founders; pro-lifers using leftist tactics; and Argentina and Netherlands vote anti-establishment.
They had good intentions. They won the arguments. But the policies they put into place were colossal failures. As even many of their former advocates are admitting.
Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman have the feeling that a change is in the air. Do you sense that? What is it?
We are right to thank God for our Thanksgiving feast and for all of our other blessings through the year, even though they come to us by means of ordinary human beings. This is because Thanksgiving has to do with vocation.
Thomas Hobbes is one of those classic writers who stimulates thought and advances important ideas, even though the reader disagrees with his conclusions. In his book "Leviathan," he says that there are only three kinds of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. And he gives reasons why monarchy is the best.
We have been worrying about the decline of Christianity, and we have also been worrying about the decline of liberalism (that is, liberal in the sense of "freedom," plus individual rights, plus democratic self-government). British political philosopher thinks those two declines are connected. And that we are devolving into a Hobbesian state of "war of all against all."
Finnish Lutherans acquitted--again; the two most vocal Christians pull out of the presidential race; and the American Medical Association says "no" to euthanasia.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the Somali-Dutch activist and writer who, a cradle Muslim, has become one of the major critics of radical Islam. With multiple fatwas calling for her death, Ayaan became an atheist. But now she has become a Christian.
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