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May 31, 2024 | 
iai.tv | Shannon Vallor |Nolen Gertz
AI's promise was to solve problems, not only of the day but all future obstacles as well. Yet the hype has started to wear off. Amidst the growing disillusionment, Nolen Gertz challenges the prevailing optimism, suggesting that our reliance on AI might be less about solving problems and more about escaping the harsh realities of our time.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Nolen Gertz |John F. Haught |Dominic Preziosi |Shaun Blanchard
Four views on Adam Kirsch’s new book seek to answer: What, if anything, about humans is irreplaceable?
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Nolen Gertz |Gareth Dale |Alice McDermott |Phil Christman
Interested in discussing this article in your classroom, parish, reading group, or Commonweal Local Community? Click here for a free discussion guide. Adam Kirsch’s new book, The Revolt Against Humanity, is a very short volume concerned with a very simple yet “seemingly inconceivable” idea: “The end of humanity’s reign on Earth is imminent, and...we should welcome it.” The idea, according to Kirsch, unites two camps that would otherwise seem to be at odds with each other.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Regina Munch |Randy R. Potts |Jacqui Oesterblad |Nolen Gertz
On July 26, a coup in Niger removed the country’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. The junta insisted it acted because of the government’s inadequate response to Islamic extremism, but the man who has emerged as the coup leader, General Abdourahmane Tchiani, led the presidential guard for twelve years and reportedly moved against Bazoum because he feared that Bazoum was about to fire him.
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Aug 26, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |Randy R. Potts |Jacqui Oesterblad |Nolen Gertz
Home to some of the largest and most beloved national parks in the country, Montana is known for its natural beauty and access to the outdoors.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Griffiths |Randy R. Potts |Jacqui Oesterblad |Nolen Gertz
I arrive in Helsinki on June 18 for a six-week stay. I’m close to the end of a book I’ve been working on for more than a year, and I want a bolt-hole where I can complete a draft. I choose Helsinki because I’ve not been there before, because I know no one there, and because I don’t know any Finnish. I’ll be able, I think, to write for half of each day and explore the city for the other half. I hope, too, for light.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Moses |Randy R. Potts |Jacqui Oesterblad |Nolen Gertz
After being sentenced to one hundred years in prison for his racketeering conviction as head of the Genovese organized crime family, Anthony Salerno penned a letter to a newspaper columnist who had expressed alarm about the powerful law that prosecutor Rudy Giuliani had used in the case. “Roy Cohn, my former attorney, always stated that you were an honorable man,” Salerno wrote to columnist Murray Kempton in 1987.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Robert P. Imbelli |Randy R. Potts |Jacqui Oesterblad |Nolen Gertz
Peter Steinfels’s polemical response to two pieces I wrote about the forthcoming Synod on Synodality and its Instrumentum Laboris should not go unanswered. Let me reply to it by focusing on three key issues. First, Steinfels’s response wrongly suggests that my reflections were directed against Pope Francis himself. I fear Steinfels’ animus against Sandro Magister has skewed his reading of my article on Magister’s blog, Settimo Cielo.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Moses |Randy R. Potts |Jacqui Oesterblad |Nolen Gertz
After being sentenced to one hundred years in prison for his racketeering conviction as head of the Genovese organized crime family, Anthony Salerno penned a letter to a newspaper columnist who had expressed alarm about the powerful law that prosecutor Rudy Giuliani had used in the case. “Roy Cohn, my former attorney, always stated that you were an honorable man,” Salerno wrote to columnist Murray Kempton in 1987.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Peter Steinfels |Randy R. Potts |Jacqui Oesterblad |Nolen Gertz
Even in my undergraduate days—way back in the middle of the last century when JFK, Pope John XXIII, and Elvis Presley were still alive—I was made aware that Joachim of Fiore was one of the bad boys of Western history. Holy as he might have been, the twelfth-century monk and exegete was the Ur-millenarian whose apocalyptic vision, I learned, was responsible for the Jacobin Terror, Lenin’s Marxism, Stalin’s Gulag, and many lesser bloody follies. Writing on the website of First Things, Robert P.
