These past few days have given us a series of civic episodes in which the public square seems to lose its mind all at once. Let’s consider just a few of them. Joy Behar said […]
Many are abuzz about Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday homily. In order to provide some context, let’s consider what Pete Hegseth prayed at the Pentagon last Wednesday, March 25th. In leading a Pentagon Christian service, […]
A recent appeal from Pope Leo XIV urged patient diplomacy amid rising tensions between Western powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran. His words reflected the Church’s perennial instinct toward peace. Through long decades of […]
I was rather disappointed in the recent State of the Union address, but not for the reasons many readers might think. I believe that most Americans watched it the way one watches a meticulously overproduced […]
As the nation marks Jesse Jackson’s death at age 84, I realize that the temptation will be either to canonize the man as an icon of civil rights sainthood or to dismiss him as a […]
If you’re anything like me, you didn’t know the name Billie Eilish until you heard the news of her declaration on the Grammy stage: “No one is illegal on stolen land.” After her remark, the […]
By now, the death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis has been converted into a digital spectacle, parsed, dissected, meme-ified, and moralized across social media platforms. One side is casting Pretti as a canonized martyr against […]
Public debate surrounding the turmoil in Iran is increasing, and rightly so. Unfortunately, I have observed an increasing default to a tired conclusion, namely that religion itself represents a corrosive threat to political order and […]
What is unfolding in Iran today is faithful to the Quran. The present regime represents the mature expression of political Islam as articulated through Quranic command, prophetic precedent, and juridical enforcement. The Iranian theocracy emerged […]
Bishop Robert Barron tweeted in response to Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address last week, accomplishing something increasingly rare in public discourse, since he cut through rhetorical fog and exposed a philosophical fault line that modern politics […]
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