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Xi is pursuing unification not merely through military preparation — but also through calibrated political warfare
The article explores the disturbing similarities between recent shooters' manifestos and historical extremist ideologies, highlighting the need for deeper understanding of these patterns.
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, one of the few economists in the world equally at home solving stochastic dynamic optimization problems as with sociological theory and history, has an excellent series of twitter posts on capitalism and modernity. JFV: I have been reading (and re-reading) a lot of social theory. What strikes me is that most critics of […] The post Capitalism and Modernity appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesHUD Says It’s Legal to Tell the TruthOn health care pric...
Voters have lost faith in local authorities constrained by austerity
Repetition, it’s said, can be the mother of learning. So, in light of recent Catholic debates about the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, permit me. The post The Peace We Can Make appeared first on First Things
The measure of Magnifica Humanitas cannot be taken today, so soon after its release. We won’t know for many years what sort of legacy it might have. But if. The post Magnifica Humanitas Refounds Catholic Social Teaching appeared first on First Things
At nearly 43,000 words, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,” is a sprawling effort to array the. The post Magnifica Humanitas, a Missed Opportunity? appeared first on First Things
Matters of adolescent identity and child welfare loom compellingly large in new festival-premièred films from Marine Atlan, Jordan Firstman, and Cristian Mungiu
In a career that spanned more than sixty years, the legendary jazz saxophonist’s name became synonymous with the art itself—and he never stopped pushing the genre forward