Monthly Archives: May 2024

‘There’s the Glass House. Here’s the Stone.’

Posted on May 27, 2024 by Bill Schmitt

Our society’s embrace of the all-purpose polarizer—the worldview labeled “oppressed vs. oppressor” or “victim vs. victimizer”—prompts us to weaponize everything, including guilt. We’ve got lots of glass houses and plenty of stones. Guilt is already a formidable material when it … Continue reading →

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Updating the Pope’s AI Messages—Download Data, Upload Souls

Posted on May 8, 2024 by Bill Schmitt

This commentary is also published in Phronesis in Pieces, found at billschmitt.substack.com. Six months can bring a lot of action in the world of artificial intelligence. Pope Francis began 2024 with two messages to the Catholic Church probing AI’s prospects … Continue reading →

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Catholics Have Work to Do; Tech Schools Can Help

Posted on May 1, 2024 by Bill Schmitt

To celebrate this Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, May 1, we can channel the earthly father of Jesus and imagine his joy that Catholics increasingly see promise in a “tech school” education. Americans have rediscovered the need to “get … Continue reading →

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Big Mess on Campus: ‘Fighting Irish’ Lessons on Unrest

Posted on May 1, 2024 by Bill Schmitt

The current tumult on college campuses, a sad erosion of their status as centers of wonder, excellence, and shared learning, invites us to go back a half-century and recall how one university community experienced a previous era of unrest. Let’s … Continue reading →

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