Daniel Wiser, Jr.

@NationalAffairs senior associate editor, reader, writer. Email: [email protected]

[Daniel Wiser, Jr. @TheWiserChoice]

Bl. Franz Jägerstätter put it well: "Discipleship to Christ requires heroism." There is no quick fix to the crisis of men, but there is a path to long-term renewal: heroic discipleship lived in daily, hidden work. https://t.co/W29NfS4379

[National Affairs @NationalAffairs]

America's problems are more fixable than they look | Yuval Levin: Full Interview @AEI https://t.co/CnOTioBMii

[National Review @NRO]

President Trump wanted voters to behave like he was on the ballot in the 2026 midterms, and he sure got his wish. | Yuval Levin

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[National Affairs @NationalAffairs]

Just like factories in the 19th century, Big Tech companies today know that the easiest workers to exploit are children. Brad Littlejohn of @AmerCompass joined our latest podcast to discuss protecting kids from the digital vice industry: https://t.co/HAYFeZhCa8

[National Affairs @NationalAffairs]

Big tech companies are waging a digital war on childhood and functioning like vice industries. Brad Littlejohn of @AmerCompass joined our latest podcast to discuss restoring gatekeepers and protecting children online: https://t.co/HAYFeZh4kA

[WSJ Business News @WSJbusiness]

Tech leaders say AI will cure disease within a decade. Drug executives say that is a pipe dream. https://t.co/aixRIseXYp

[The Point Magazine @the_point_mag]

“It is as if a model trained on enough scripture, told what to do enough times, could become good. As if Christianity works that way. As if people work that way!”
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[Daniel Cox @dcoxpolls]

One of the most important messages in Generation Uncoupled is simply that we are better people when we belong.

"Men without any close friends are more than twice as likely to believe that society does not value men as those with six or more close friends. However difficult our lives may be, community lifts spirits and lightens the load. It also leads us to become better people."
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[The Catholic Thing @catholicthing]

As All Hallow’s Eve Approaches | Stephen P. White: Halloween festivities provide an opportunity to unite our community and to prepare us for the deeper meaning of All Saints' Day.

@Stephen_P_White #allhallowseve #halloween #allsaintsday

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[Daniel Wiser, Jr. @TheWiserChoice]

From @thelampmagazine's excellent issue on the Seven Deadly Sins: "Artificial intelligence is the most slothful invention in human history." https://t.co/PbTCULOlqV

[Matthew Continetti @continetti]

Must-read: New Yuval Levin on AI @tnajournal @aei https://t.co/Ao60cWaE4M

[National Affairs @NationalAffairs]

There is a growing divide between the public and progressive elites about the state of democracy. @ajtfosp joined our latest podcast to discuss the implications: https://t.co/MzNAWOuGtk

[National Affairs @NationalAffairs]

Is American democracy in decline? Actually, says @ajtfosp, democratic indicators have improved in the states. He joined our latest podcast to discuss: https://t.co/MzNAWOuGtk

[Daniel Wiser, Jr. @TheWiserChoice]

Wise advice from @continetti that, yes, also helps my job security: "The best editors aren’t afraid to rein in a writer, but they are also confident enough to let him loose (on occasion)....And if you are a writer, never fear the editor’s pen." https://t.co/bsJIw9eZwm

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

A more constrained executive branch could begin to take shape with a smaller pardon power—and a bigger House of Representatives, Yuval Levin argues. https://t.co/Sg2W0dGWtl

[National Affairs @NationalAffairs]

Michael Gonzalez of @UToledo and @JackMillerCtr on the importance of bridging the gap between STEM education and the humanities: "A society enhanced by technological capability without civic responsibility would be a tyranny in all but name." https://t.co/EgSFaF6mWE

[National Affairs @NationalAffairs]

The writer Paul McDonnold visited South Dallas, a historically struggling inner city. But the "optimistic" efforts he found there "could build a middle layer in the economy between individual brokenness and centralized government and economic power." https://t.co/NyJQQkvzIJ

[Nicole Penn @nmpenn]

"That’s the DOGE mistake, the mistake you’d make if your conception of the human world is too flat and narrow, and wary of making eye contact." Y. Levin on what doomers get right and wrong about the threat AI poses to the many of us who still touch grass https://t.co/e2Tss1lJnt

[National Affairs @NationalAffairs]

Brad Littlejohn of @AmerCompass on protecting kids from the digital vice industry: We must first grasp the fundamental economic logic of the digital war on childhood, and then re-empower parents as mediators between markets and children: https://t.co/QCEjUPJ5Bs

[National Affairs @NationalAffairs]

Lawmakers across the country are finding ways to protect children from social media and AI while staying within constitutional bounds, write @Georgetown's Meg Leta Jones and @ClareMorellEPPC: https://t.co/1NBJ0peMHm

[National Affairs @NationalAffairs]

Celebrate the start of fall by reading our new issue! Jeff Rosen on permitting reform; Meg Leta Jones, @ClareMorellEPPC, and Brad Littlejohn on protecting kids online; Isaiah Sterrett on Antonin Scalia as teacher of democracy; and much more: https://t.co/d6CTvswON0