September 10, 02025

On Measuring People and Nature Together

One of the singularly best things the United Nations produces each year is the Human Development Report, a flagship annual publication that tracks and analyzes the state of human progress around the world. What makes the Report so remarkable is that it combines rigorous data analysis with an ever-changing and (for the UN) quite expansive point […]

May 22, 02025

How AI Sees Us: Dignity, Design, and the Deep Mirror

Amid the pageantry and celebration of Pope Leo XIV’s recent election, the new pontiff offered a striking explanation for the selection of his new name. In one of his first public addresses, Leo reflected on his 19th-century namesake, Pope Leo XIII, whose landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum – “On the Rights and Duties of Capital and […]

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