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For President…Convict No. 9653
In his path-breaking new biography of Eugene V. Debs, Shawn Gude looks back to a time when the left thought it had a chance to go mainstream.
They Want to Believe
A growing belief in the paranormal could be unsettling to many people. But young seekers may have something to teach formal religious institutions.
No War Is Just
The Church’s just-war doctrine was always aimed at preventing war, not justifying it. Archbishop John Wester tells Heidi Schlumpf why all modern wars are immoral.
A Rare but Growing Courage
BishopsWar and PeacePope Leo XIVTheologyDonald Trump
The first-ever Catholic Military Conference is unlikely to be a pep rally for the Trump administration and its policies.
The Errant Pilgrim
Health CarePriesthood
The radical priest Ivan Illich spotted disturbing trends in medicine that most doctors continue to overlook.
Document of an Atrocity
Middle EastPoliticsWar and Peace
Through interviews with IDF soldiers and Israeli intelligence personnel, 'NAZA' explores how individuals rationalize their participation in mass slaughter.
Turning Against the State
EuropePolitics
In France, the authority of the democratic state seems severely wounded. For those concerned for the health of liberal democracy, this is bad news.
A Native Weed
HistoryBooksRace
Joseph Kelly argues that the roots of fascism can be found not in Europe but in the U.S. But he struggles to explain what, precisely, fascism is.
Trump Is Undermining the Military
War and PeaceDonald TrumpPolitics
Trump and Hegseth are making MAGA political correctness the criteria for holding positions of life-and-death responsibility.
Beauty at the Edge
PoetryTheologyCulture
In the greatest works of art, praise and suffering become inseparable.
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Pulling the Brake
Eugene McCarraher
Havel, Trump, and the Church
Is Hollywood to Blame for Trump?
A Rare but Growing Courage
Fear and Twitch-Streaming in Michigan
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When Kids Ate Like Grownups
Nonfiction
In 'Picky,' Helen Zoe Veit chronicles the gradual dulling of American kids' palates.
Agnes R. Howard
Pulling the Brake
HistoryEconomyPoverty
Two recent histories of capitalism show its rapacious, violent appetite. How might Catholics contribute to a politics of repair?
Eugene McCarraher
Just Like Us
BooksCulturepostliberalism
Patrick Deneen's 'American Odyssey' reads Homer instrumentally, transforming a rich epic into a neat model for social conservatism.
Charles McNamara

Election 2026

Prayer and Participation
Are Democrats Ready for Their Close-Up?
Fear and Twitch-Streaming in Michigan
Putting Florida Back in Play

Pope Leo XIV

Havel, Trump, and the Church
A Rare but Growing Courage
The Right’s Disturbing Appetite for Death
Clerics Without Clericalism

Culture

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Contemporary
They Want to Believe
Is Hollywood to Blame for Trump?
Beauty at the Edge

Archive

John P. Sisk on the Beatniks and Tradition (1959)
Martin Turnell on the Religious Novel (1951)
Peter Steinfels on the Death of Christian Democracy (1967)