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9 Reasons Why Pope Francis’ Encyclical Is Really About Technology

Pope Francis’ new encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’, is actually a reflection on technology. The human origins of what the Pope calls an “ecological crisis” are grounded in what he terms a “technocratic paradigm” that orders our earthly actions. There...

Postscript: Sheldon Silver and the Moreland Commission

This article is a postscript to “How Sheldon Silver’s Scandal Reveals Albany’s Corruption.” On January 22, Democrats from New York’s State Assembly emerged ashen faced from behind closed doors after a last-ditch attempt to save their...

How Sheldon Silver’s Scandal Reveals Albany’s Corruption

Sheldon Silver, a New York assemblyman for 38 years and a speaker for 21, was arrested by the FBI on January 22 and arraigned in federal court on five corruption charges. In public, Silver presented himself as a simple personal-injury lawyer. Behind closed doors, he...

How Local Food Became Exotic

The end of the year and the beginning of the next is usually marked by frequent pilgrimages to the grocery store. So on your next visit, stop and ask yourself: What is advertised as being exotic and special? Nine times out of ten, it will be local food. Beer brewed in...

How Millennials Can Avoid the Glue Factory

There was one type of employee that was essential to the Industrial Revolution—until it wasn’t. Everyone interacted and depended on this hard worker, whose number peaked at 3.25 million in England alone by 1901. Yet by the 1920s, their number had been cut in half...