Front Page

From the universalist faith that God will redeem everyone, I gained a surprising gift: the capacity to forgive my mother, the woman who murdered her, and myself.
Under Trump, state propaganda marshals Americana in the service of nativism.

Spellbound

Forty percent of Americans are in thrall to Donald Trump. Democrats' attempts to break his stranglehold have mostly backfired. Breaking down the right-wing media’s Iron Curtain will be a very long-term project. In the meantime, the 60 percent need to get organized.
Modern Catholic social teaching is now suffering the same decline as befell the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in the twentieth century.
Five years after whipping up a loose army of supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Trump has deployed a well-funded paramilitary force to execute his authoritarian agenda.
Books
Donald Trump bears an uncanny resemblance to Rex Mottram, the businessman and opportunistic British politician in Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Brideshead Revisited.’
Tom Holland’s new translation of Suetonius’s ‘The Lives of the Caesars’ comes at a time when the psychology of tyrants is on all of our minds.