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Will the Day Come When We No Longer Open Excel?
The Monolith and Its Historical Compromise For forty years, our daily work on a computer has followed a familiar routine: to work with any piece of information, we first open a large…
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What Is Unconditional Hope?
The Radiant Gift Beyond Our Calculations Entering a parish church for Sunday Mass carries a distinctive weight as the liturgical year draws toward its conclusion. The cycle of readings turns our attention…
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The Cost of Forgetting the Forgotten Americans
The Mirage of Alignment and the Politics of Disillusionment American political life in the opening decades of the twenty-first century has been defined by a recurring, structural tragedy. Every major political party…
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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.