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Journey into a future shaped by creativity, critical thought, and secular habits of mind. Help shape what’s next!

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Bruce Ledewitz
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The rehabilitation of truth

You cannot build a secular civilization into the future without a kind of faith.

Captain Cassidy
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Why authoritarians love—and hate—an apology

One of the many things we can expect in the next four years is a lot of sputtering demands for apologies for the last four years.

Shawn Hardin / Dale McGowan
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Machines and meaning: AI's role in a humanist future

AI raises important questions about what it means to be human. It's time to have that conversation.

Dale McGowan
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The twist ending of history

On the strange, seductive lure of authoritarianism.

Adam Lee
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The United Cities and Ruralities of America

It's a two-state solution for our own intractable conflict.

Dale McGowan
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Book burning in the digital age

The right has long felt that some of our history needs adjustment. How far will they go?

Brian Fogarty
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Watering the seeds of our own destruction

There's a reason fascism is rising at this moment, and why the threat will continue into the future.

Gillian Broaddus
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Remembering Dora Richter and what it means to survive

People like Dora make it possible to imagine a future where we outlive our oppressors.

Adam Lee
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Model collapse—the end of the road for AI

AI is developing the same problem as cousins who marry—and for the same reason.

Dale McGowan
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When the future forgets the past

Knowledge disappears easily.

Dale McGowan
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Letting go of my last big myth

Burying the myth of god was easy compared to freeing myself from the myth of progress.

Adam Lee
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AI will be the death of the internet

The future of the internet is a lifeless wasteland. But what comes after that could be wild.