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1 week ago | 
timesfreepress.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris
Breakpoint: Tech gurus are monetizing the epidemic of loneliness, and there are victims 20 minutes ago by John Stonestreet and Shane Morris / Breakpoint Facebook/Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg says his company will pioneer AI personas to solve the loneliness epidemic. / AP Photo/Nick Wass/File A few years ago, a headline from The Onion mockingly suggested that people who "stink at being human" seem most optimistic about AI.
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2 weeks ago | 
timesfreepress.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris
In his book "Amusing Ourselves to Death," Neil Postman presciently warned of a few consequences of an entertainment-driven age. Among them was the temptation of celebrity-ism in which fame supplants expertise, and style supplants substance.
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2 weeks ago | 
crosswalk.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris
In a recent editorial in The New York Times entitled, “The Delusion of Porn’s Harmlessness,” Christine Emba challenged the dogma that suggests anything goes in the bedroom as long as everybody consents. Emba, the author of the book Rethinking Sex, goes on to slam the feminist Left for being unable to admit that pornography has been terrible for society and promotes the objectification and violence against women. All this, in fact, even when everybody involved technically consents.
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3 weeks ago | 
timesfreepress.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris
In the song "Let's Get Married," by The Gray Havens, a husband-and-wife duo recount:Some would scoff and stare at us,And some would laugh and cryAnd others asked our age and wage,And raised their eyebrows in surprise. Disbelief is typical of what young couples experience when they decide to get serious about marriage. In fact, it's a major reason why the average age of first marriage for both men and women is now around 30.
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1 month ago | 
crosswalk.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris
In the song Let’s Get Married, by the Gray Havens, a husband-and-wife duo recount: Some would scoff and stare at us,And some would laugh and cry And others asked our age and wage,And raised their eyebrows in surpriseDisbelief is typical of what young couples experience when they decide to get serious about marriage. In fact, it’s a major reason why the average age of first marriage for both men and women is now around 30.
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1 month ago | 
crosswalk.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris
A hundred years before the invention of the television, Danish theologian and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote: Suppose someone invented an instrument, a convenient little talking tube which, say, could be heard over the whole land … I wonder if the police would not forbid it, fearing that the whole country would become mentally deranged if it were used… The prescient comment was part of his criticism of the daily press, specifically how the constant stream of news inflates the importance...
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1 month ago | 
crosswalk.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris
Should we “optimize” human beings? That was the question Anna Louise Sussman addressed recently in The New York Times, describing a new process that allows fertility services to bring only the healthiest, least disease-prone children into the world. Polygenic embryo screening uses AI to find genes with statistical correlations to disorders such as diabetes, autism, heart disease, cancer, and schizophrenia.
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1 month ago | 
kentuckytoday.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris
Even as the American marriage rate has steadily declined, the cohabitation rate has steadily grown. According to a 2019 Pew Research study, more Americans have cohabitated at some point than have been married. Fifteen times more couples live together outside of marriage today than in 1960.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
crosswalk.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris
Supporters of progressive cultural and political movements often declare their ideas “inevitable” and “on the right side of history.” The last few years, however, have demonstrated the need to take such claims with a grain of salt. Arguments and cultural fads that once seemed unstoppable now look dated, and those who persist in making the arguments and following the fads, failing to realize that history never had a “right side” to begin with, look a little silly.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
crosswalk.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris
Conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat once described certain events as “scissor” stories, with headlines, statements, ideas, or scenarios “perfectly calibrated to tear people apart…” Regardless of details, those on the left feel obligated to react to these events one way, while those on the right feel obligated to react the opposite. But above all, everyone feels they must react, which means they feel obligated to comment on social media.
