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Will the happy world never come?
Humanity is not for sale
Annalisa Saccà PhD· 13 August 2026 · 7 min di lettura

Humanity is not for sale

In a recent interview with Zanny Minton Beddoes , the Economist's Editor-in-Chief, Elon Musk was asked what the world will look like in ten years. He replied that it will be dominated by AI whose intelligence surpasses the sum of human intelligence — that "there really won't be anything AI can't do better than humans, except perhaps for the humans to be human." The most likely outcome, he continued, is an "age of amazing abundance where anyone can have anything they can think of," a "quasi-infinite economy" in which "the magnitude of change is indescribable." AI and robots, in his telling, will control the production of goods and services, generating more than any human could possibly consume. The only real task left for us, in this vision, is to ensure that AI has good values, cares about humanity, and is maximally truth-seeking and curious.

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The family  yesterday  and  today
NEW! · Angel Rodriguez Guerro PhD· 6 August 2026 · 8 min di lettura

The family yesterday and today

Being a person is not something added on; it is not a quality or characteristic of the human being: it is the very way in which a human being exists, the very essence of their being. Dignity is not tied to moral, physical, or intellectual qualities, but simply to the fact that the person “is”—to the fact that, as an individual of the human species, they occupy an absolutely special place in creation.

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Individualism and Human Rights
NEW! · Angel Rodriguez Guerro PhD· 3 August 2026 · 12 min di lettura

Individualism and Human Rights

Contemporary secularism’s attempt to eliminate God from public life has also led to the erasure of the concrete human person from that sphere and his replacement with a legal abstraction that dissolves under analysis and criticism. It is doubtful that human beings can establish a code that effectively protects their lives and rights if they overlook the most fundamental aspect of that life: that it is a gift, not just any available good, and that man is not the master of the universe but a contingent being and a creature.

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The Freedom That Kills
New! · Riccardo Colasanti MD· 5 July 2026 · 6 min di lettura

The Freedom That Kills

According to Pavel Florensky1, the “fundamental difficulty” of ancient metaphysics lies in how to reconcile unity with multiplicity.

Applied to the field of politics, this means figuring out how to integrate the unity of a nation, an institution, or a people with the multiplicity and pluralism of the differences that are part of it—namely, citizens, intermediate institutions, ethnic groups, and minorities.

A major transformation has taken place: for Plotinus, the One preceded being in ontological dignity. For postmodernists, all reality is an infinite difference where richness consists in not participating in a universal—that is, in nothing that is common to all.

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The Weight of Freedom III
NEW!· Sarah Pattison PhD· 31 Jul 2026

The Weight of Freedom III

This three part series explores the historic cycles of humanity’s return to a just social order and the nature and role of Freedom in …

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Global Public Health Issues
NEW!· Maurizio Marceca MD· 28 Jul 2026

Global Public Health Issues

A dear friend asked me what I think about global public health issues.

My first reaction—considering that I belong to the generation that …

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