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Ross Douthat Delivers 19th Annual Commonweal Lecture

Ross Douthat Delivers 19th Annual Commonweal Lecture On April 8, readers and friends of the magazine gathered for the nineteenth annual Commonweal Lecture at Fairfield University. This year’s speaker was Ross Douthat, a New York Times columnist and host of the Interesting Times podcast. “The purpose of the Commonweal Lecture series,” said editor Matthew Boudway, “is an extension of the magazine’s purpose—to feature some of the best current Catholic thinking about politics and culture, and to ...

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Why Portico? (ft. Micah Mattix)

In this episode, Micah Mattix joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about Portico, a new literary quarterly published by the Institute on Religion and Public. The post Why Portico? (ft. Micah Mattix) appeared first on First Things

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What should I ask Richard Hanania?

Yes, I will be doing a Conversation with him. Richard does have a new book coming out, Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in Disaster. While I liked the book (and blurbed it), I do not feel our conversation about the book would be that interesting — too much beating up on the stupidities of other people, […] The post What should I ask Richard Hanania? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIf “wokeness is just civil rights law”, why did “high . by JBAsk him if libertarianism is populism ...

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The Download: keeping up with AI, and the future of IVF

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Stay on top of what’s going on in AI this summer Here at MIT Technology Review, we understand exactly how relentless the pace of news from the world of artificial intelligence…

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It’s time to address the looming crisis in entry-level work.

Artificial intelligence has not so far produced a clean story of mass unemployment. Aggregate employment in developed countries remains broadly stable, and recent assessments have found limited evidence that AI has shifted the headline numbers. But a troubling change may be hiding beneath the surface: the quiet weakening of the first rung of the career…

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