Edward Luce
Edward Luce is a Washington-based Financial Times columnist and U.S. national editor/commentator known for reporting and analysis on U.S. politics, foreign policy, political economy, and global affairs. He previously served as the FT’s Washington bureau chief and South Asia bureau chief, and is the author of books including The Retreat of Western Liberalism and Zbig.
American Resilience Depends on Defending Civic Rather Than Hereditary Institutions
The American inheritance is civic rather than hereditary, and its durability depends on institutions that are defended rather than merely celebrated. Karl Rove warned that treating American identity as a matter of ancestry reverses the Declaration’s anti-aristocratic premise, while Kori Schake and Jane Harman argued that political pressure on the military and failures of constitutional restraint put democratic norms at risk. Their shared case was that American resilience is a historical record, not a guarantee.
Pope Leo XIV Frames AI Governance as a Test of Human Dignity
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, argues that artificial intelligence should be judged first by its effects on human dignity, agency and power, not by its technical promise. In a panel moderated by Vivian Schiller, Vilas Dhar, Kim Daniels and Josh Good read the document as an effort to bring Catholic social teaching into AI debates over work, education, autonomous weapons, institutional accountability and the moral limits of markets and technology.