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Ben Rhodes's new book makes an earnest case for the political power of words. But the degradation of our public life can’t be reversed by rhetoric alone.
Church teaching on suicide tells us what we must not do. But it doesn’t give us anything helpful to say to those facing intolerable suffering.
The Catholic Church was made for this moment. Its intellectual tradition can make a forceful stand for human dignity as AI accelerates.
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The memory of almost being hanged by Trump supporters doesn’t appear to have clarified Mike Pence’s conscience.
"When we wonder why death takes a life too soon, we bring forth a more wondrous puzzle: Why are there lives to be taken at all?"
Three writers—a Jewish theologian, a legal scholar and intellectual historian, and a Catholic philosopher of religion—reflect on Omri Boehm’s call for a "radical universalism."