Current Events
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Wendell Berry on science worship
Listening to our leaders reassuring us that all public health and political action is being directed by science and expert advice reminds me of this passage from Wendell Berry’s “Letter to a Scientific…
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Mission Creep in the Empire State
Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York State, announced yesterday that he was teaming up with five neighboring states’ governors to calibrate a strategy for reopening the state’s economy. He is apparently open to…
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Impeachment, the Bible, and the (Dis?)Unifying Power of Texts
This week as, political geek that I am, I have tuned in periodically to the Senate impeachment trial, it has crossed my mind more than once that there is a similarity between what…
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Distopia
Last week, the governor of New York lit up One World Trade Center in pink to celebrate passage of a bill that permits the termination of a pregnancy after 24 weeks. These procedures…
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Outsourcing compassion
Last week I heard an article about Amazon’s recent tweaking of its A.I. “Alexa.” The changes Amazon has made are targeted specifically at young children, whose parents are being encouraged to place the…
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Recent puzzlements
Here are some technology stories that have caught my eye lately. 1.) Can Social Media Have a Structure That Does More Good Than Harm? A professor from UNC Chapel Hill concludes that once…
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Love Thy Body
There aren’t many books that I feel like buying and giving to everyone I know, but this one fits into that category. Written by Nancy Pearcey, author of Total Truth, Love Thy Body…
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Musings on Technopoly
I am constantly amazed at how obediently people accept explanations that begin with the words “The computer shows…” or “The computer has determined…” It is Technopoly’s equivalent of the sentence “It is God’s…
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Fashionable Idolatry
A few days ago, I heard a news story called “Sometimes We Feel More Comfortable Talking to a Robot.” The article describes how a robot called “BlabDroid” can inspire people to open up…