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“The women who flourish are not those who win the girlboss game, perfect the tradwife aesthetic, or embrace Marxism’s spiritual statism. They are those who are rooted in genuine religious community, mentored by wise older women, and protected by faithful men.” @emlwaters
Neither Girlboss nor Tradwife
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“Like Burke, I began with the recognition that neither girlboss feminism nor the online tradwife movement has the answer women are looking for. But where Burke turned to Noam Chomsky, and ultimately Marxism, I turned to the Bible.” @emlwaters
Neither Girlboss nor Tradwife
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Neither Girlboss nor Tradwife
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“We are not raw material in the hands of those who build the machines. We are persons. We are made in the image of God. We will not surrender our principles to the technology. The technology will answer to our principles.”
The American Covenant’s Answer to AI
Josh Hawley on artificial intelligence, human dignity, and the moral foundations of American self-government.
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“In deciding how to govern this technology, we are not merely writing policy. We are renewing—or surrendering—the moral basis of our life together.”
The American Covenant’s Answer to AI
Josh Hawley on artificial intelligence, human dignity, and the moral foundations of American self-government.
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The American Covenant’s Answer to AI
Josh Hawley on artificial intelligence, human dignity, and the moral foundations of American self-government.
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In Caro Claire Burke’s “Yesteryear,” her “protagonist may be dressed in tradwife clothing, but her novel reveals far more about the spiritual lostness of secular women than about the religious women she set out to critique.”
Me in @firstthingsmag
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Please join us on August 7–8, 2026, for two days of intellectual enrichment and good company as we explore the topic of beauty. The retreat will feature a keynote lecture, a panel, and seminar discussions led by instructors from Eastern University’s Templeton Honors College.
The full retreat program will be held at the Union League Club of New York.
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“Davis’s Offensive Christianity imputes supernatural importance to both humdrum and spectacular manliness. It is thus paramount that men exercise the manliness muscle, lest it atrophy and die. Inoffensive Christianity equates such a death with piety. But a doctrinally healthy church understands that men must be allowed to flourish in their manliness for the corporate body to truly imitate Christ.”
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The Return of Strong Christian Men
by Scott Yenor
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The Return of Strong Christian Men
by Scott Yenor
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In our most recent podcast episode, @matthewschmitz joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “Our Strange Catholic Moment” from the June/July 2026 issue of the magazine.
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I wrote a few thoughts on the LDS/Christian question over at @firstthingsmag
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New in @firstthingsmag, @scottyenor reviews Offensive Christianity:
“Davis’s roadmap for discipling young men may just issue in renewal—of both church and civilization.”
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“By conforming himself in prayer to the crucified Lord, Jimmy Lai is living his unjust punishment as an occasion of grace.”
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The Strength of Jimmy Lai and the Weakness of Emperor Xi
by George Weigel
George Weigel on Jimmy Lai’s witness in prison and why his case remains a challenge for Xi Jinping.
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“Jimmy, whom I am honored to call a friend, is a seventy-eight-year-old diabetic who has been in solitary confinement some seven hundred days longer than the United States was engaged in World War II, and is now serving a twenty-year sentence for threatening Chinese national security. That conviction has no more legal or moral validity than that of the Lord by Pontius Pilate.”
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The Strength of Jimmy Lai and the Weakness of Emperor Xi
by George Weigel
George Weigel on Jimmy Lai’s witness in prison and why his case remains a challenge for Xi Jinping.
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The Strength of Jimmy Lai and the Weakness of Emperor Xi
by George Weigel
George Weigel on Jimmy Lai’s witness in prison and why his case remains a challenge for Xi Jinping.
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“In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo singles out as ‘particularly insidious’ the ideology that ‘suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth.’ This view—where the human person is born in debt, and eventually buys him or herself free—obviously puts the very young and the very old in danger. But now it imperils many others who fear they will not be able to justify their lives if their labor can be done more cheaply and speedily by AI.” @LeahLibresco
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Worth Beyond Our Works
Leah Libresco Sargeant on AI, human dignity, and why our worth cannot be measured by what we can do
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Worth Beyond Our Works
Leah Libresco Sargeant on AI, human dignity, and why our worth cannot be measured by what we can do
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Me for @firstthingsmag on #magnificahumanitas: We're all Gary Kasparov now.
"In the past, when computers mastered a specific domain of human excellence, the response was
often to think less of that domain, rather than to think less of ourselves."
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