In May 1891, Pope Leo XIII published an encyclical – “Rerum Novarum” – that gave the industrial-age West a moral vocabulary that socialist forces would never match. Exactly 135 years later in May 2026, his namesake did it again. A different civilizational rival, a different technological revolution, but the same gift.
Based only on compute, manufacturing output, or the speed of state-directed deployment, the U.S. narrowly edges out China in the AI race, as those are areas where the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarian centralization has inherent structural advantages to competition. What…
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