From My Bookshelf
There are so many books to read, and I need someone to share them with. (And because I've always wanted to belong to that elusive species, the "man of letters.")
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 14
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Aug 7, 2026
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Love’s Grandeur and Its Tyranny (opens the original)
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The Mean Streets of Kyiv (opens the original)
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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
Babel vs. Jerusalem, AI, and the Grandeur of Humanity (opens the original)
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Where Have All the Farmers Gone? (opens the original)
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