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Media Mentions: October 2025

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  1. What Can Frankenstein Teach Us About AI?

    October 31, 2025

    Director Guillermo del Toro’s new movie adapts Mary Shelley’s horror classic, Frankenstein. It comes as the world is grappling with a new unpredictable creation: artificial intelligence.

    Guests Scott Collura, writer and editor for IGN.com.

    Eileen Hunt, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame Author of the 2020 book Artificial Life After Frankenstein.

    Christopher DiCarlo, philosopher, educator and ethicist who teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Toronto.

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    Erik Brynjolfsson, Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.

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    Eileen Hunt headshot. A woman with shoulder-length brown hair, smiling at the camera. She wears a black and white patterned jacket over a black top against a gray background.

    Eileen M. Hunt

    Political Science

  2. ‘No Kings’ Rally Organizer: ‘Quite Clear’ Why Mike Johnson Is Attacking Our Protests

    October 16, 2025

    Karrie Koesel, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame and an expert on authoritarianism, concurred that Johnson’s intentional disinformation about nationwide peaceful protests is disturbing.
    “Applying pejorative labels is a common strategy to demobilize and dehumanize political opposition,” said Koesel. “This cultivates an us-versus-them narrative and identifies political and peaceful dissent as an existential threat.”
    She added, “Dark times for democracy.”

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    Karrie Koesel headshot. A woman with shoulder-length brown hair, olive -tone skin, and rose-colored glasses smiles against a gray background. She wears a green v-neck top with a black stripe detail.

    Karrie J. Koesel

    Political Science

  3. Insights on a new peace agreement for the Middle East

    October 13, 2025

    Notre Dame Professor Michael Desch said both Hamas and the current Israeli government have incentives not to fully comply with the deal. 
    “The people responsible for the destruction of Gaza are still in power,” said Atalia Omer, professor of religion, conflict and peace studies at Notre Dame.

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    Michael Desch headshot. A man with a full white and gray beard, wearing amber-colored glasses, a green tweed jacket, a plaid collared shirt, brown sweater vest, and a dark green textured tie. He is smiling against a gray background.

    Michael C. Desch

    Political Science

  4. University Of Notre Dame Receives Two Historic Gifts Totaling $205 Million

    October 07, 2025

    The University of Notre Dame has received two recent gifts totaling $205 milliion. The first is a $150 million donation from alumnus Matthew Walsh and his wife, Joyce, for Notre Dames’s School of Architecture. The second is a $55 million donation from Francis and Kathleen Rooney to endow an institute for the preservation of American democracy.

  5. The people in the pews are not the same as a generation ago

    October 05, 2025

    Notre Dame political scientist David Campbell stressed a similar point. While more data is needed to confirm Bass' trends, Campbell said, the findings match other stats suggestive of an overall decline in religious commitment in the church in tandem with one seen in other faiths.

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    David Campbell headshot A man smiles warmly at the camera against a plain, light gray backdrop. He wears a textured dark blue blazer over a light pink and white plaid button-down shirt. His light brown hair is styled neatly.

    David Campbell

    Political Science

  6. Attack on LDS Church harkens back to its early history of religious persecution

    October 05, 2025

    “The idea that Mormons were a persecuted group in the 1800s is deeply ingrained in the Mormon psyche,” said David Campbell, a University of Notre Dame professor and author of “Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics.”

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    David Campbell headshot A man smiles warmly at the camera against a plain, light gray backdrop. He wears a textured dark blue blazer over a light pink and white plaid button-down shirt. His light brown hair is styled neatly.

    David Campbell

    Political Science

  7. Will US Troops Now Fight for Qatar after Trump Security Guarantee?

    October 03, 2025

    "Giving a security guarantee to Qatar, or to anyone else, increases the risk of the United States being pulled into a future conflict, because it expands the list of things that the United States promises to fight for," Eugene Gholz, a former senior Pentagon adviser now serving as associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, told Newsweek.

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    Eugene Gholz headshot. Headshot of a fair-skinned man with a salt and pepper goatee, wearing glasses, a lilac shirt, and a patterned purple tie with a gray suit jacket. He has short dark hair and is smiling at the camera. Framed artwork is visible in the background, out of focus.

    Eugene Gholz

    Political Science

  8. How will the federal government shutdown affect you?

    October 02, 2025

    "Democrats are using the necessity of passing either a budget resolution or a continuing resolution. They're holding out in an attempt to leverage this required thing to get Republicans to address some of the issues, and they see health care as a winning issue for them," said Joshua Kaplan, Notre Dame Political Science Professor.

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    Joshua B. Kaplan headshot. A smiling man with short gray hair and a navy blazer with a gold and black striped tie. He stands in front of a bookshelf filled with various books on American politics and history.

    Joshua Kaplan

    University