insufficient,” wrote Pope Leo XIV in a 40,000-word essay on AI last month. “It must be disarmed.” A new tune by Charli XCX, a British pop star, captures both the papal and the popular mood: “Spring, Summer ‘26/When the world is gonna end, no hope for any of it/Yeah, we’re walkin’ on a runway that goes straight to hell.”
American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn












