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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.
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 conversation with author and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn about her new memoir, sobriety, a failed attempt to convert, and Simone Weil's counsel to cure our faults 'by attention and not by will.'
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In the wake of Trumpian destruction, Pope Leo's encyclical offers a model for rebuilding and repair.
Over the course of his life, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus surrendered grassroots political organizing for the company of the powerful.
"I started calling life with a terminal cancer patient 'the Sword of Damocles Life.' My wife and I lived under a constant threat, but not under constant assault."