Reflections on Magnifica Humanitas for Catholic Educators

On the importance of our shared responsibility to model critical thinking

Aug 13 • Justin Bonanno

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How to Put Down Your Phone: Or, Stanford’s Persuasion Wizards and the Ghost of Rene Girard

The digital cultivation of desire via behavioral conditioning and mimesis

Aug 6 • Justin Bonanno

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July 2026

How to Go Back to the Land, Catholic Edition: A Book Review of Liturgy of the Land

For those who want to “touch grass,” dig it up, and plant something in its place

Jul 30 • Justin Bonanno

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A conversation with Andrew Laubacher on what the Internet is doing to our souls

The tech idiot paradigm and resisting the digital slot machine

Jul 23 • Justin Bonanno

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Remember, You Die

Three ways to place your end before you

Jul 14 • Justin Bonanno

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A Dialogue Between a Keyboard and a Pen

Concerning which is best to write with

Jul 9 • Justin Bonanno

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June 2026

AI and the Spectrum of Permissibility

Yo-Yo Ma as a faker, the Air Guitar World Championship, AI as literary autotune, and more

Jun 25 • Justin Bonanno

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Peg's Lump

“All my life, I had a lump on the back of my neck.”

Jun 23 • Anna Bonanno

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May 2026

What we can learn from the trash heap of The Drudge Report and why it matters

This incredibly basic website is a masterclass in the “economics of attention”

May 28 • Justin Bonanno

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April 2026

The Hardship of Your Lives is Over

Are we happy as we are?

Apr 28 • Anna Bonanno

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March 2026

Rhetoric and Spotting Fake Images

Probable reasoning in an era of AI-generated images

Mar 31 • Justin Bonanno

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Hope in the Hyperlink

The difference of digital writing

Mar 1 • Justin Bonanno

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