Marco Rubio holds two chairs at once. He is Secretary of State. He is National Security Advisor. On September 22, the White House confirmed that President Trump had signed the commission making the second appointment permanent. Rubio had carried it on an interim basis since May 1, 2025, when Mike Waltz was nominated to serve…
Does Claude earn his keep? That sentence has a household meaning here. My son uses it about himself, about his dog, about nearly everything that takes up room in our life. Penny the cat earns her keep. The wild birds we feed earn theirs. Capability is not a character reference. It is whether you justify…
The Formed Mind in the Age of AI An EWTN News article on how Catholic colleges are responding to artificial intelligence caught my attention recently.¹ The approaches vary. Ave Maria University does not have a university-wide AI ban, but its academic honor code prohibits generative AI in any part of the writing process and in…
Texas voter registration closes October Two weeks ago I asked whether you were registered.¹ Today, for Texans, the question has a date on it. Monday, October 5, is the last day to register for the November 3 election.² If you already confirmed your name on the roll, this note is still useful. Ask one other…
I had already been getting irritated with Claude before Pete Hegseth and Anthropic were in the same sentence in my head. I am a paying Claude customer, and I had learned that I had to think about when I could use him. Could I give him substantial work in the afternoon, or did I need…
Forgiveness has been addressed. The contemporaneous record has been set out. The remaining question is why accountability still matters in a free society committed to truth, justice, and the common good. The answer is not found in the desire for private vengeance. It is found in the forward-looking purpose of justice itself. Accountability is the…