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One-third of teens now bond with chatbots, some nudging users toward self-harm. Drawing on Augustine and Spaemann, this piece argues we belong when we know ourselves already known and loved—something churches can offer. By Jonathan Teubner in @hedgehogreview.bsky.social

Join us on Monday for a Noontime Discussion on a right-wing cultural revolution, with Tara Isabella Burton and @perioikos.bsky.social. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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New online: Our crisis of loneliness may be less about social connectivity than about the loss of a primordial relatedness, writes Jonathan Teubner. hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

Our society needs a certain kind of person, and our society shapes a certain kind of person. The challenge for us often lies in aligning the two, writes Yuval Levin. hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

New online: The freedom, equality, prosperity, and sheer manic energy of a liberal society tend to make us forgetful of republican virtues, even though all those things depend on them, writes Yuval Levin. hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

New online: A new rule introducing robot umpires adds to the disenchantment of baseball, writes @perioikos.bsky.social. hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

UFOs exist. On that we can all agree. The question is not whether they are but what they are, writes Brad East. hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...

Gary Saul Morson addresses the frequent claim that Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s translations of works of classic Russian literature are more accurate than all others. hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...

Most of us live the important parts of our lives not in town halls and public forums but in the aisles of supermarkets, among the friends we elect to cultivate, or in the mazes of online opinion bazaars. We have individualized choice. hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...

From our latest issue: Richard Hughes Gibson on Umberto Eco's sophisticated mockery of early machine translation. hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...

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