On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
THE DOCUMENT & ITS MOMENT On 15 May 2026 — chosen deliberately to mark the 135th anniversary of Leo XIII’s
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China at the Crossroads
COVER STORY · GEOPOLITICS The Beijing Summit: A New Paradigm for Strategic Stability For the first time in nine years,
The Fortnight That Reshaped the Landscape of Private Wealth
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One Soul, One Body, Many Members: St. Augustine on the Church and the Holy Spirit
The Question Augustinus Poses to Every Age In the long history of Christian thought, no thinker has mapped the interior
The World Too Big to Buy, and the Bonds Too Dangerous to Ignore
The Architecture of a Pivotal Moment The May 25, 2026 edition of Barron’s arrives at a convergence of forces that
The World This Week — A Steward’s Briefing
EDITOR’S PREFACE Five stories converge in this edition of The Economist to form a single, urgent question for families of
Your Money Is Being Reprogrammed
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The Age of Noise
I · THE CONDITION Noise as the Defining Metaphysics of Our Moment Aldous Huxley’s verdict, issued as epigraph across the