AI versus Human Consciousness: A Future with Machines as Our Masters?

Muhammad U. Faruque

For many, AI represents the beginning of a future when machines equal—and even surpass—humans in their “intelligence.” But intelligence and consciousness are distinctively human—and immaterial—qualities, which machines can never possess.

Cultural Devolution

Hamza Yusuf

How the New Victimhood Culture Rejects Human Dignity and Divinity

The Impractical Gifts of an Intellectual Life

Zena Hitz

Philosopher Zena Hitz examines the pleasure and fulfillment that come from intellectual pursuits born out of our own self-directed curiosity

Facts For Fictions

Eva Brann

Does a fiction need to originate in, and rely on, a fact of reality? The answer seems to be: Yes.

Islamic Law and the Children of Adam

Recep Şentürk

Many contemporary human rights can be grounded in laws originating from Islam’s insistence on universal brotherhood.

Rethinking the World Brain

Esmé L. K. Partridge

The internet places knowledge at our fingertips, but to assert that we can know things wholly independently is, in one interpretation of the Qur’anic verse, to “transgress our limits.”

Can We Think Deeply about Important Ideas without Writing about Them?

Sophia Vasalou

Writing that cultivates the ideals of intellectual and moral growth that motivate us must eschew the illusions of originality and detachment.

The Logic of the Birds

Oludamini Ogunnaike

Poetry is perhaps unique among the arts for its capacity to combine seeming opposites into a totality that mirrors that of our own being.

What a Pandemic Reveals about the Rule of Law

Melissa Moschella

Emergencies often require bypassing the rule of law, but the common good, in the long run, ultimately depends on legal predictability.

The Seven Deadly Sins in the Modern World

Renovatio editor-in-chief Hamza Yusuf—conversing with scholars, leaders, and writers—explores one of religion’s most enduring conceptual frameworks, the Seven Deadly Sins.

Is Gluttony Still A Sin?

The Seven Deadly Sins In the Modern World

Hamza Yusuf, Anna Bonta Moreland, William Cavanaugh

Breaking the Language Barrier

John Walbridge

The Han Kitab teaches that the Islam found in the Arabic and Persian books is only one possible way in which the Islamic revelation can be expressed.

What Makes a Book "Great"?

Fr. Francisco Nahoe and Sarah Barnette

Sarah Barnette, Francisco Nahoe