Stephen Colbert offers to rule the world after Y2K15

Stephen Colbert
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With flights grounded, computers crashing, and dogs walking like people, incoming Late Show host Stephen Colbert is pretty certain the apocalypse has arrived: "Our worship of technology has midwifed our doom!" he excaims. Fortunately for the rest of us, Colbert is both already filtering his own urine and ready to lead humanity into a new era:

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.