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Eighty-Two Letters

A German radio message went unread for eighty-five years. Last week, an AI program and a man with a Sunday read it in ten hours.

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Eighty-One Years

One aircraft and one bomb ended a war and opened a new age. Weeks earlier, its builders had asked the President to think twice.

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Smart Just Got Cheap

Intelligence is now infrastructure. Wisdom and judgment are not. What Eisenhower's D-Day decision says about the age of AI.

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Character Does Not Scale

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical and the case for remaining human in an age of AI. The danger isn't machines becoming us.

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