Bernard G. Prusak

1 month ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Miles Doyle |Isabella Simon |Bernard G. Prusak |Dominic Preziosi

Article The clock is ticking, and the American public is sending a message that they want someone to do something. Getting the Message Article Cutting and Undercutting Lee Zeldin’s agenda at the EPA matches the Trump administration’s broader approach: kneecap the government, and then complain that it doesn’t run well. Article More, or Else Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson offer a vision of a progressive future in which Democrats stop getting in their own way.

Jul 9, 2024 | americamagazine.org | Bernard G. Prusak

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says that in giving to the needy, your left hand should not know what your right hand is doing (Mt 6:3). This striking image is part of his injunction not to draw attention to your good works but to go about your giving quietly and humbly. In 2007, The Los Angeles Times published a story suggesting that the left hand of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation didn’t know what the right hand was doing—but in a different sense from what Jesus intended.

Apr 24, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Bernard G. Prusak |Thomas Geoghegan |Beverly Willett |Sharon Mesmer

Once upon a time, in a land known as Christendom, a man died rather than betray his conscience, which is to say, his “convictions about what it is right and wrong to do.” That man was Thomas More (1478–1535), who, if you are a certain kind of law professor writing in the year 2020, you can imagine “erupting with amazement and anger” over some of the more liberal pronouncements of the U.S. Supreme Court before it was rescued by the three appointees of a twice-impeached president.

Feb 24, 2024 | flipboard.com | Bernard G. Prusak

1 day agoBryan Johnson wants to build a nation of immortals. Would you join? The first few steps on the path toward living forever alongside the longevity enthusiast Bryan Johnson are straightforward: “Go to bed on time, eat healthy food, and exercise,” he told a crowd in Brooklyn on Saturday morning. “But …

Feb 24, 2024 | ncronline.org | Bernard G. Prusak

In her highly acclaimed book God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning, Meghan O'Gieblyn claims that "[t]oday artificial intelligence and information technology have absorbed many of the questions that were once taken up by theologians and philosophers: the mind's relationship to the body, the question of free will, the possibility of immortality." Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations is evidence that Catholic...