Alexander Stern

While modern technologies seemingly offer new horizons of freedom, individual experience is being constrained by a flattening mass culture.

Again and again, AI's backers demonstrate a basic contempt for human intelligence and agency.

Donald Trump’s authoritarian assault on the country has drawn different responses from Democrats. For his part, Bernie Sanders has taken to the road on his "Fighting Oligarchy Tour."

Trump's call for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza begins a new phase of suffering for Palestinians—and at the worst possible time.

The increasing dominance of symbolic cultural issues has transformed the understanding of what politics is on both the left and the right.

The bishops once used their influence to encourage nuclear disarmament. Can they do so again now?