Christian Life Under Total Surveillance

Hello — sorry to be away, but the Internet has been out here in the Baton Rouge bureau. I couldn’t write my Substack letter last night either; don’t worry, subscribers, you’ll be getting a make-up issue this weekend. I’ve been trying to post this for several hours, but Cox Cable says the system won’t be fully up till later today. A reader sent in this cheering news from the world of surveillance technology:-- More...

Picture: military interrogators are talking to a local man they suspect of helping to emplace roadside bombs. The man denies it, even as they show him photos of his purported accomplices. But an antenna in the interrogation room is detecting the man’s heartbeat as he looks at the pictures. The data is fed to an AI, which concludes that his emotions do not match his words…