Speech sounds like it is made of words, but that impression has more to do with what’s in our heads than with what comes out of our mouths. In natural speech, there are no clear acoustic boundaries ...

One of my favorite pieces of spiritual wisdom comes from Carlos Valles, S.J., which I read during my Jesuit novitiate. Father Valles wrote, “If you always imagine God in the same way, no matter how ...

There's a new god of war. Amazon's Prime Video confirmed Wednesday that Ryan Hurst, best known for his roles in Sons of Anarchy and The Walking Dead, will portray Kratos in the upcoming live-action ...

Cody Parks is a UPS driver from Wilkes County, in rural western North Carolina. Last month, he came to Chapel Hill to hear the last lecture by a man who studies small fragments of ancient Greek ...

A postliterate culture cannot afford a postbiblical church. Of course, the revolt against reading happened in a different way than Bradbury imagined—not imposed from the top down but embraced from the ...

Netflix has signed on to adapt Liz Moore‘s hit novel “The God of the Woods” — which counts President Obama and Taylor Swift among its fans — into an hour long series. Liz Hannah (“The Girl From ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it ...

The sight of the slur shocked and alarmed the mother of a young boy with special needs. Kimberly Steffes of Joliet never imagined a sitting president would use the “R-word,” a derogatory term long ...

On the evening before Thanksgiving, the president of the United States took to his social media platform to claim in a lengthy screed that immigration was destroying the country. In one spurious ...

We spend much of our lives in the in-between — those fleeting moments when one thing has ended but the next has not yet begun. This space has a name, and it’s called “liminal.” It is the thin veil ...

The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...