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Leila and Phil Lawler

Leila and Phil Lawler have been talking to each other about everything for almost 50 years. Join as they discuss every aspect of the battle on the home front. leilamarielawler.substack.com

  1. Bring back taboos; Corporate "Pride" displays are compelled speech

    1d ago

    Bring back taboos; Corporate "Pride" displays are compelled speech

    Show Notes: llinois Gov. JB Pritzker just signed a bill making it LEGAL to knowingly expose others to HIV — including through BLOOD DONATIONS. The Dangers of Compelled Speech by Jake Warner The Power of the Powerless, by Václav Havel Live Not by Lies, by Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist. Like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person.We are not called upon to step out onto the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think—this is scary, we are not ready. But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think!This is the way, then, the easiest and most accessible for us given our deep-seated organic cowardice, much easier than (it’s scary even to utter the words) civil disobedience à la Gandhi.Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies! Robert Reilly, Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything (affiliate link) Sword of Honor trilogy, by Evelyn Waugh (affiliate link) “Evelyn Waugh,” Rev. Paul Mankowski, S.J., Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome [Update: the links in this series are broken; I will try to see if we can get a fix from the Center. Meanwhile, please read this book review, in which Fr. Mankowski discusses Waugh’s satire, including in his historical novel, Helena: Waugh on the Merits, First Things, Oct. 1, 2017. ~ Leila] Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    54 min
  2. Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's document on AI

    May 29

    Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's document on AI

    Note Bene: We read the entire encyclical and we didn’t use AI. And we don’t use AI to draft, write, or edit our own writing! Show Notes: Full text of the encyclical Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah’s remarks on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical “Magnifica humanitas” The importance of Pope Leo’s first encyclical (Phil’s preview of the encyclical— posted before it appeared) Pope Leo breaks new ground with encyclical on AI (News/Analysis by Phil, posted on the day it appeared) No, the just-war tradition is not ‘outdated’ (Phil’s comment on the encyclical’s treatment of just-war theory, which we didn’t even have a chance to discuss in our podcast) Promise and problems in Magnifica Humanitas (Phil’s reflections a few days after publication) Other interesting analyses of the encyclical: Idols of the Valley (Yuhal Levin in New Atlantis) Pope Leo Isn’t Standing Athwart the Singularity (Ross Douthat in the New York Times) (archived here) Between Thomas Aquinas and Silicon Valley: The first encyclical of Leo XIV (David Berger) AI Chatbots are Evil by Marc Barnes More on what we recommend on Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law in general: Whether the intellect is a power of the soul? Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theologiae Divini Illius Magistri, encyclical on Christian education, Pius XI (1929); good overview of “the three societies” of flourishing human life. Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching by Anthony Esolen (affiliate link) Knowledge and Decisions, by Thomas Sowell (affiliate link) Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

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Leila and Phil Lawler have been talking to each other about everything for almost 50 years. Join as they discuss every aspect of the battle on the home front. leilamarielawler.substack.com

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