The global university may model a path toward reason in the age of Twitter. But dogmatism still has its champions, here and abroad.

A visit to the Trappistines of Mount St. Mary’s in rural Massachusetts provides hope and joy in dark times.

What can boxing teach us about the good life? Gordon Marino riffs on Sartre, Kierkegaard, and Camus, finding that in order to save our lives, we must risk loving.

Mammon has seduced us. The only true path of resistance to capitalism’s destructive energies is one that leads away from the logic of markets.

Even for the skeptic, pilgrimage can offer an opportunity for self-discovery and contemplation.

The multi-billionaire spent hundreds of millions of dollars from his immense personal fortune to leverage his influence as mayor.

The Catholic teaching about gay people is not just an error. It’s a barrier to compelling political witness.

If American men and women were being drafted to fight in Afghanistan, there is not the slightest possibility the war would have dragged on for eighteen years.

For progressive DAs, being ‘tough on crime’ is a thing of the past. They’re rejecting Trump’s politics of fear in favor of fairness, rehabilitation, and community.

The Trump administration’s decision to cut SNAP benefits isn’t just stupid. It’s cruel. Ignoring the real conditions of poverty is a grave moral error.

A parasite is a homemaker, living in its host. In Bong Joon-ho’s new film it could be property, capital, commercialized art and artifice, or all of them together.