A Name Short Enough to Use - Fides et Ratio | Reflections on life from a theological and rational perspective
On her birthday, Karen Early reflects on Trump, Xi, China, Stephen Mosher’s underground-Church rosary, and why AI needs not only a usable name, but a vocabulary accurate enough to think with.
A Name Short Enough to Use
I wondered what little birthday present President Trump might have for me. There is usually some tidbit on Truth Social for one and all, something that makes me stop and think, Oh, what is this? He did not disappoint.
China has never been abstract to me. I have followed Stephen Mosher’s work since the 1990s, and I have been writing about him and China on these pages since 2019.¹ I keep a rosary made and smuggled out by the underground, persecuted Catholic Church there. It came through Population Research Institute, and Stephen Mosher gave it to me.
The rosary that got out.
I use it on Sundays, our mini-Easters, on feast days, and on days that seem to ask for those …