In effect, therefore, this book is a call for a return to the medieval vision of a rational God who created rational creatures equipped to discover the verities of nature. In other words, to do science.
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Here are a dozen tips for detecting fake and misleading articles about artificial intelligence.
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On Saturday, I looked at Matt Johnson’s thoughts on George Orwell’s vital but comparatively unknown 1946 essay, “The Prevention of Literature.” Orwell, famous for Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), wanted to “make political writing into an art.” He was well aware that most competitors for public attention simply wanted to make political writing a reliable form of mass brainwashing. He hoped to find a public that sought an alternative. He published “Prevention” (longish, at 5500 words) in Polemic, a short-lived British intellectual magazine (1945–47), which featured work by such notables as Henry Miller, Bertrand Russell, A. J. Ayer, and Dylan Thomas. Intellectual freedom as “violence” Intellectual freedom, as we have always been told, is only ever one generation Read More ›
Owner Jeff Bezos has not yet succeeded in making the company financially viable in a time when so much media and journalism is now being independently created.
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On ID, it sounds like Grokipedia, unlike Wikipedia, follows the time-honored rule of letting people explain themselves and saving the commentary for later.
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Surprised? Joel Kotkin points out that the conventional picture many people have of the religious vs. the non-religious population is gravely distorted.
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Shows like Kimmel’s and Colbert’s have long abandoned the usual attempts at humor, which has historically included taking jabs at both sides of the aisle.
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Kirk openly invited dialogue and debate among people with different views and backgrounds. He always fought for others’ right to speak their minds.
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Research presented at a 2025 Microsoft Research meet finds that people tend to think less carefully and critically when they rely on GenAI and online sources.
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Weiss had resigned over her frustrations with censorship and bullying in legacy media. Those who laugh last laugh best.
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It’s curious that so few notice a much more serious threat to science than current politics is: the calls that are coming from inside the house.
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If we ingest a daily avalanche of shortform content, eventually we may feel starved for a good book, or a long, thematic movie that is actually about something.
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As long as access to the internet continues, it is still easy to get around most restrictions. But no one should see this fact as a healthy news environment.
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Fr. Martin Hilbert argues that causality — design, to use the more loaded term — is written deep into nature, and the best science demonstrates that.
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As a veteran journalist puts it, once you build a co-dependence like that, you lose public trust. People are just not going to believe you.
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Michael Egnor and I wrote The Immortal Mind to show that the mind is not simply what the brain does and this story is but one example among many.
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Chatbots have been trained on such stories. People forget it’s just a machine and panic because they think of it as a person who really thinks things.
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The coverup of Biden’s cognitive decline couldn’t have come at a worse time. New media platforms are eating up more and more of people’s time and attention.
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The growing crisis of confidence in science isn’t because people believe “science” is bad. It’s because they believe the current scientific elite is untrustworthy.
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The First Amendment applies here. The editors and publishers have every right to destroy their journals’ reputations without fear of being investigated.
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