Featured Essays

Featured

The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.

Cultivating Purpose and Discernment in a Computational World

Reflections on how ill-prepared our traditional moralities are for the world in which we live. The speed and spread of computational power is forcing a revaluation of values that we are not equipped to handle.

New Gods for a New Time

The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?

Greg Laugero 4/29/26 Greg Laugero 4/29/26

Intelligence Against Instinct: Why Prediction Is Not Enough

Modern AI equates intelligence with prediction. But intelligence begins when instinct is interrupted—when necessity opens into possibility.

Greg Laugero 2/11/25 Greg Laugero 2/11/25

Reading the Iliad: Wisdom and Violence

The first of an ongoing re-engagement with the Iliad. Here we have an untimely meditation that holds up the mirror of violence to a culture desparately in need of alternatives to vendettas.