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Newsletter · By Peter C. Meilaender · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
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Sep 29, 2026
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Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Love’s Grandeur and Its Tyranny (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    The Mean Streets of Kyiv (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Sep 19, 2026

    From the Pennsylvania Dutch to the Lakota Sioux (opens the original)

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    On Thursday, various news service reported that Anthropic’s chatbot Claude is now doing about 25% of the work involved in building its own successor. Yesterday, the New York Times covered the recent M.I.T. report on artificial intelligence, which warned that AI is causing “cognitive surrender” among students.It appears that my Tuesday post discussing Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI was quite timely, wouldn’t you agree?A quick re

  4. Issue · Sep 15, 2026

    Babel vs. Jerusalem, AI, and the Grandeur of Humanity (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    Where Have All the Farmers Gone? (opens the original)

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