- On Hadrian’s Adventus coin, in JJS: “While most probably for the Romans the coin had no special anti-Jewish meaning but only the celebration of a new Roman colony, for the Jews the transformation of Jerusalem into a Roman colony dedicated to Roman and Greek deities was perceived as a religious and national tragedy.”
- Reflections in Compact on young religious converts tending toward anti-institutionalism: “Rather than functioning as bubbles of piety or ideological echo chambers, religious communities and institutions ought to strive to become spaces where people can learn to, as the Italian theologian Luigi Giussani put it, ‘live the real intensely.’”
- After John Gray’s recent rejection of MacIntyre’s After Virtue, Unherd offers a reconsideration.
- ”Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle.”
- Chinese AI is cheaper, more adaptable, and almost as proficient—how?