Thought & Spirit
A promotional video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was supposed to put death rumors to rest, but while many viewers were busy scanning the footage for signs of AI manipulation, an unexpected figure in the background captured the internet's attention.

Jürgen Habermas died on a Saturday in Starnberg, at the edge of a Bavarian lake where he had spent his retirement. He was ninety-six.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho has sold millions of copies, been translated into 80 languages, and holds the Guinness World Record for most translated book by a living author. It has changed lives. People get tattoos of its quotes. It is, by any commercial measure, one of the most successful novels ever written. And literary people cannot stand it.

Whether artificial intelligence should play a role in creative and intellectual life is a debate that has taken hold across media, academia, and literature, and it has now reached the pulpit.

How a small Slavic people's folklore became one of European literature's most enduring moral fables

Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire has announced that Matt Fradd and his popular Catholic podcast "Pints with Aquinas" will be joining the platform in 2026."We're pumped to have @mattfradd & Pints With Aquinas
