Source: Law & Liberty
by Samuel Gregg
“Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (MH), seeks to inject wisdom into a discussion often dominated by two extremes. The first is a wild-eyed techno-utopianism that would drag us into what the Cambridge literary critic F. R. Leavis called a ‘technologico-Benthamite civilization.’ The second is a techno-catastrophism inclined to see every technological development as an existential threat to humanity. In many ways, MH is an impressive document. … There is, however, one matter that has been passed over too lightly. This concerns MH’s commentary on economic questions.” (07/13/26)