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Ross • Can We Resist the Age of the Algorithm?
Times plays an outsized role in the ideas that govern the nation.
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Ross Douthat • The fall of the intellectual
A writer could blast out her opinions, but writers are at their best not when they tell people what to think but when they provide a context within which others can think.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
For many Americans, especially non-Christians, the thought that Christian morality can be a useful guide to much of anything is risible, particularly since so many white evangelicals from 2016 forward chose to throw in their lot with a solipsistic American president who bullies, boasts, and sneers. Yet Lewis’s life suggests that religiously inspire
... See moreJon Meacham • His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
This is at the heart of the way in which I believe we can today restate the doctrine of final judgment. I find it quite impossible, reading the New Testament on the one hand and the newspaper on the other, to suppose that there will be no ultimate condemnation, no final loss, no human beings to whom, as C. S. Lewis put it, God will eventually say,
... See moreN. T. Wright • Surprised by Hope
the ideology that holds truth is a substance to be molded to purpose is becoming dominant with frightening speed.