This will end badly.

"Here was our sin: we were so focused on the evil outside of ourselves, that we couldn’t see the sin within us."

“The claim by the Very Rev. David Monteith, the cathedral’s dean, that the piece creates a ‘meaningful encounter’ is vitiated by the doubt whether one is encountering anything greater than an internal monologue.”

HLA Hart wrote The Concept of Law as a series of lectures for undergraduates; Joseph Raz produced his greatest work while carrying a full teaching load largely in areas outside his research focus. We kid ourselves in supposing we can engineer the writing of great philosophical

"The problem is that developing the skills needed to interact with AI in a complementary fashion depends on not relying on them for one’s education."

Today I learned that Francis Fukuyama's favorite movie is Blade Runner, which feels right though I'm not sure I could articulate exactly why.

'If you’re going to make a horror movie, you’ve got to have a priest in it.' #RobertDuvall was given 'an Eddie Bauer coat as payment... it’s odd & skewed... The pods have landed, there’s a squeakiness in the air, & a priest on a swing.' #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers #PhilipKaufman

“A Notre Dame graduate… and a friend went to the professor’s office to ask for reading recommendations. MacIntyre’s response was that we must strive to be the kind of people who don’t go around asking for reading recommendations. But then he listed some: Collingwood,

Long ending of Frankenstein resolves a lot of issues; glad to see it restored by serious text criticism.

“We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.” ~ CS Lewis

Did a double-take when I read this line in Dracula, but it turns out Kodak was founded in 1892, while Dracula was written in 1897

From W.H. Auden's review of The Lord of the Rings:

If, while mocking people you hate, you include mockery of their physical features, the main thing you are communicating is that you disrespect every human with those features, but you will only say so if they step out of line. That's who you are; we know that about you.

Something dark is happening under the hood of “aligned” AI. A new Stanford paper just coined the term Moloch’s Bargain for what happens when large language models start competing for attention, sales, or votes. The results are brutal: every gain in performance comes with a

Professors: “no extensions” Also Professors: “dear editors, due to unforeseen circumstances, my manuscript is going to be several years late”

"Imagine having a career of which it can legitimately be said that neither The Godfather Part II nor Something’s Gotta Give would have worked without you." https://t.co/A4rnV79fhT

Allow to reiterate why I think Douthat is actually a craftier - and more dangerous to his fellow right wingers - interviewer than he is usually given credit for.

The #NFL, 53 years ago today A sport much different than today. Head shots, clothesline tackles, horse collars, unprotected quarterbacks, baseball infield dirt, concrete-like AstroTurf, punches thrown, wooden storm fences near the field, late hits out-of-bounds October 8, 1972

"In this context, it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that 'the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction btw fact & fiction & the distinction btw true & false no longer exist.'"

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking. Where the world sees threats, she sees children; where walls are built, she builds bridges." Pope Leo XIV #DilexiTe

I’m on an English department committee that voted to create a subcommittee, and that subcommittee is considering the creation of a sub-subcommittee, and now I understand why the Soviet Union collapsed.