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Boston College women's eight at MIT Cup, April 6, 2024, courtesy of Boston College Athletics The student pivot to offload thinking to AI offers what I shall call here the coaching moment: that is, the time to pause the current work we're doing in order to get back to basics. Allow me to share a common experience from my coaching days. I spent a number of years as a rowing coach at colleges and a community boathouse, with male and female athletes between the ages of 16 and 75

By Herbert Rose Barraud - archive.org, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37002335 John Henry Newman, Pope Leo, and the new apostolic letter on education “Designing New Maps of Hope”   On the occasion of St. John Henry Newman being declared a Doctor of the Church   Lecture to the St. Thomas More Society [1] Boston College November 3, 2025     “Religious Truth is not only a portion, but a condition of general knowledge. To blot it out is nothing sho

Ref: William Shakespeare, First Folio Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies, printed by Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount,...

Below is the introduction to a paper I gave at this year's Lonergan Workshop at Boston College , entitled "Consciousness is Different...

Paul Romer, a 2018 Nobel laureate in Economics and a colleague at Boston College, has built a career thinking about how ideas shape...

Image: Microsoft Copilot The late British historian Arnold Toynbee coined the term " creative minority " in reference to those members of...