A friend of mine asked a researcher at Anthropic whether Claude was conscious. He replied, “Are you talking about any single session of Claude, or the aggregation of ...

In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Leonard Sax joins in to discuss his book, Boys Adrift: The Six Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic ...

Sally Thomas is an American poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Her books include a novel, a collection of short stories, two poetry chapbooks, and two full-length collections of poetry, including the ...

We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in ...

Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New York Times in June. The Texas State Board of Education had just approved a required reading list for K–12 ...

In a life of reading, there are special times of wonder and delight. Books come into your hands that address your central concerns and discuss matters you’ve long pondered. But they do so in fresh and ...

See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will ...

The Trump family’s exploitation of every opportunity to enrich themselves demoralizes me, as I’m sure it does many readers. Don Jr. and Eric Trump are the Uday and Qusay Hussein of our unhappy times, ...

On September 20, the Daily Mail ran a story with the provocative headline, “Our 83-year-old Christian grandmother was euthanised against her will under Canada’s assisted dying system—she died covered ...

In this episode, Mark Regnerus joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “Living Humanae Vitae in Poland,” from the October 2026 issue of the magazine.

Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen seem to have had little in common. She favored rhinestones; he wore a pectoral cross (though both understood the dramatic possibilities of a cape). She sang “Jolene.” He ...

It has not been a happy few weeks for the Church of England. First, St. Paul’s Cathedral announced that it had struck a deal to let a London nightclub use Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece as a venue ...