Mercy, Yes, But Justice Too

J. Budziszewski , First Things Tuesday, September 23, 2025 Sometimes we hope desperately that our predictions are wrong. Fourteen years ago, I suggested that it was only a matter of time before character assassination would be replaced by real…

AI: Nearness to the Beast

In 1984, as a young man of nineteen, I returned from a year of testing my vocation to the religious life. We had been deprived, or rather liberated, from the television for that period. On my short vacation afterwards, I went off to Blockbuster…