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You Are What You Practice by Sherry Ning Everybody is religious, in the truest and most original sense of what it means to be religious: Religion comes from the Latin relegere , "to go over again; to carefully observe." And what are we made up of if not our attention and desires? What are we spendin...

The Three City Problem by Luke Burgis For most of Western history, two cities have contended for the human soul: Athens, which forms people through reason, and Jerusalem, which forms them through faith. Every serious account of intention — of how a person comes to want something and act on it — desc...

What Will Survive the 21st Century? by Ross Douthat Digital conditions create harsh pressure on human institutions. Simulations replace embodied realities, virtual existence substitutes for real-world interactions, Artificial Intelligence threatens to make work and creativity and even thinking obsol...