What establishment conservatives mean when they say “liberalism”.

Link. “rapid secularization (the decline of Christian identification accelerated from the 1990s onward) and increasing social and sexual permissiveness — extending beyond support for same-sex marriage to beliefs about premarital sex, divorce, out-of-wedlock childbearing, marijuana use…”

Basically pre-Vatican II Catholicism with some carve-outs for gay marriage and ambiguity around birth control. A good reference.

Be afraid of ChatGPT.

Link. I’m afraid. It’s been a while since I’ve done a retrospective post on this topic; it’s impressive how often warnings about our trajectory have been widely mocked — even as we just keep moving faster and faster.