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Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…aring the story, she returns home, opens Google India, and tracks down the phone number for the sweet shop her grandfather mentioned. Within seconds, she has called the store on her smart phone, and Yusuf’s grandson—who answers—has likewise opened Google to research visas for a reunion too long denied. We can understand the implications of this storyline by putting it into conversation with its longer historical context. The logic of the plot—that…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…heric Administration;[70] phasing out Title I funding for schools in low-income communities;[71] eliminating Head Start;[72] and ending Medicare’s ability to negotiate lower prescription drug prices.[73] Project 2025 leaders are not shy about the transformative impact they seek. At a September 2023 gathering held by the far-right America First Policy Institute, former Trump adviser and Institute president Brooke Rollins celebrated the “revolutiona…

The Google Question of Evil

By Michael Schulson

…oogle mean by evil? And how will Googlers know when Google has overstepped Google’s Google-imposed boundaries? Silicon Valley is not known for excessive concern about moral dilemmas (Bogost, a writer and video game designer, lives in the South, where moral angst is de rigueur). Still, Google has tried to answer these Big Questions. In a passage that will be illuminating for the religiously-inclined, Bogost discusses how Google chairman Eric Schmid…

Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

…first two answers. (Methodological notes for the wonky: this was tested on Google Incognito, on two different computers, one with no known search history for Chabad). Again, it’s not clear whether these quirks of search actually shape people’s beliefs. But it’s worth remembering that posing a question to a search engine is not the same as posing a question to any other kind of source. The competition for authority online is governed by a very diff…

Google-Phonics, Or, ‘What Is the Sound of a Thousand Tech Workers Meditating?’

By Kevin Healey

…apers as he slipped off to an undisclosed location. It was clear that tech companies like Google were implicated in those leaks. This is not just about Snowden the person. It’s about the institutional frameworks that enabled the leaks—namely journalistic organizations—which are in a state of crisis while the tech industry is booming. These are systemic issues that personal mindfulness training ignores. This is what’s missing from the discussion. T…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…as the ironic function of providing, then patrolling, what is available on Google-owned YouTube. Google’s policy is to remove content only if it is hate speech, which violates its terms of service, or in response to valid court orders or government requests. After determining at first that, under its own guidelines, the offensive video was not hate speech, Google eventually announced that, “given the very difficult situation in Libya and Egypt we…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…ia. Chaput, a culture warrior, is on center stage as the Pope and the WMOF come to town. Of course, Archbishop Chaput has said he welcomes gay families to attend the WMOF, as long as they aren’t “lobbying.” However, a workshop planned by the Catholic gay rights group New Ways Ministries, titled “Transforming Love: Exploring Gender identity from Catholic Perspectives,” was cancelled from the WMOF schedule after Archbishop Chaput intervened. Meanwhi…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…agape. It’s a problem because then Buddhists cannot explain the love that comes from compassion. So, I think it’s not a one way street; it’s a multi-way street. Everybody can learn from everybody else. If you’re careful to do that, then it’s not patronizing. Then it’s like sharing. Like, everyone brings a dish to the potluck. You have said that you chose to focus on the corporate world because that way you can move the world’s most powerful peopl…

Searching for Sex, Life and Abortion on Catholic Google

By Kate Childs Graham

…tholics, aptly named “Catholic Google.” Powered by but not affiliated with Google.com, its tag line reads “The best way for good Catholics to surf the web.” Using “safe search” technology, CatholicGoogle.com gives weight to “Catholic” websites and avoids “unsavory content.” So, here is what came up on a few searches I tried… When I searched for “contraception,” a few conservative articles came up about the Vatican’s antiquated stance on contracept…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…e that secular modernity is marginalizing his identity, and that all those comfortable with the current system are complicit in his marginalization? This would probably include the majority of the passengers on the airplane. Perhaps the central difference is that religion is a choice. One cannot help being a woman but one can choose not to be the kind of Jew who refuses to sit next to women. But cultural progressivism has long defined identity bas…