B.A. Fordham | M.A. LUISS |
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My latest for The Diplomat. The Geopolitics of the Renewed Sino-Vatican Deal:
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Vivek’s ad involving Amy Acton’s mother is one of the darkest things I’ve ever seen in politics. There is a line between political criticism and basic human decency, and this crosses it. It’s cruel, disturbing, and morally reprehensible. Truly godless behavior.
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Manifestare è un diritto, devastare le nostre città no. Ecco le misure che abbiamo approvato per contrastare la violenza e tutelare la sicurezza dei cittadini.
This is not protest. It is vandalism, nihilism, and an assault on the very foundations of Western civilization.
Those who engage in the indiscriminate destruction of cities, institutions, and cultural heritage demonstrate a complete disregard for beauty, historical continuity, and the sacrifices of generations who labored to build what they now seek to destroy. They offer nothing of value in return. They neither build nor preserve; they merely destroy, concealing their nihilism behind hollow slogans of justice and liberation.
They invoke justice while attacking the very institutions upon which a just and ordered society depends. They appeal to freedom while displaying contempt for the very civilization that guarantees even their right to protest.
This is the paradox of a Europe that, having progressively lost sight of the value of its own inheritance, ultimately comes to tolerate its destruction. A society that regards its own institutions and traditions as inherently oppressive risks transforming their dismantling into a supposed act of moral progress.
A Europe that repudiates its historical, philosophical, and Christian roots risks losing even the moral foundations necessary to defend them. When nothing is sacred, nothing is worth preserving. When every inherited institution is regarded as an instrument of oppression, destruction becomes confused with liberation.
It is easy to destroy what one has never built. Far more difficult is understanding why it was worth building in the first place.
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Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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SECRETARY RUBIO: “Nationalism” became a dirty word. So we tore down our monuments, we condemned our own history, and in too many places we taught our children to be ashamed of the countries they would inherit. In the process we opened our borders, and outsourced our industry, and allowed our militaries to wither and to decay.
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As a disappointed jag owner I can confirm the accuracy of this.
Jaguar killed itself. No villain required, no recession to blame, no supply chain disruption to hide behind. Tata Motors bought a fading but salvageable brand in 2008 for $2.3 billion and spent the next fifteen years turning it into a case study in how to destroy capital.
The rebranding campaign of late 2024 was the public execution. Jaguar dropped its leaping cat logo, fired its entire existing customer demographic via press release, and replaced a century of racing heritage with a pastel-colored advertisement featuring zero cars. The marketing team apparently decided the path to profitability ran directly through alienating the people who actually bought Jaguars. Brilliant.
The rebrand was just the visible wound. The rot started earlier. Jaguar spent years producing vehicles with reliability ratings that made Land Rover look like a Swiss watch, while charging Mercedes money for the privilege. The F-Pace, the E-Pace, the I-Pace: each one a beautiful object that dealers apologized for in advance. You bought the badge and got a subscription to your mechanic's vacation fund.
The pivot to an all-electric lineup, announced with great fanfare in 2021, then delayed, then sort-of-delayed-again, captured everything wrong with a company led by government subsidy chasers rather than engineers. Jaguar chased EV tax credits and green virtue points instead of fixing the fundamental problem. Nobody trusted the cars.
Markets are merciless precisely because they are honest. Customers stopped buying, and no amount of rebranding or regulatory coddling reversed that verdict. Capital allocated to a brand that cannot hold a customer is capital destroyed. Tata learned this lesson expensively. You, having never bought the car, learned it for free.
The ad campaign is just a sign on the door that reads, "This company is woke trash." The real rot lies beneath the surface. Firing the marketing agency won't change that.
Matthew Santucci retweeted
Pope Leo says, “The speed and ease with which answers or summaries can be obtained risk extinguishing the desire to ask questions.” Almost alone among public leaders, he recognises that AI threatens to abolish curiosity, making human beings more like machines.
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The only institution responding thoughtfully to AI is the 2000 year old Roman Imperial Church.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Un million de personnes sur les Champs-Élysées pour saluer le pape Léon XIV.
Il y aura :
-ZERO voitures brûlées.
-ZERO abris bus cassés.
-ZERO policiers agressés.
-ZERO poubelles brûlées.
Mais pourquoi donc ?
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🚨 The Champs Elysee is completely FULL
This is unbelievable
The people have France have turned out in their hundreds of thousands to see Pope Leo XIV, the atmosphere is electric
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There is such an enormous power just waiting to be awakened. All it needs is confidence: to known and understand who and what it is and who and what it’s fighting for.
🇫🇷🔴 JUST IN: A video has been leaked of a French military chaplain roasting leftists and warning of the Great Replacement in front of French paratroopers in the city of Carcassonne.
"Calm down, lefties! Quiet! Breathe through your nose!"
Remarkably, the massive audience of soldiers begins laughing and cheering.
The chaplain then refers to all the men and women who fought and died for France.
"You will see these dates next to first names and last names of men, of women who died so that France would be a beautiful country. So that architects continue to build basilicas, cathedrals, housing estates, fortified castles. And instead of putting knights in them, we put incompetent people. We put people who eat seeds (weak leftists), people who lecture everyone, ideologues."
He warns them that all of France and its culture can be replaced.
"In fact, after a while, when you're thirsty, when you're hungry, it's the law of the strongest that reigns. And others will take the place of our values, of this freedom of speech, of action, of this equality between men, and of this fraternity, of this culture, of this society. Nature abhors a vacuum."
"So, my dear friends, I encourage you to keep fighting, to continue to have the courage of your convictions, as I am trying to do at this Mass."
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is facing backlash from Christians after celebrating St Paul’s Cathedral in London hosting nightclub events.
Critics are asking: Would he celebrate a mosque hosting nightclub events in the same way?
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The modern world uses math to create addictive social media algorithms.
The old world used math to create works of ecstatic beauty and awe.
