Two inventive new books from Albanian philosopher Lea Ypi invoke personal history to explore the meaning of human freedom and dignity.

Over the course of his life, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus surrendered grassroots political organizing for the company of the powerful.

Completing a marathon in my forties brought me into deeper communion with the humanity I was trying to outrun.

The radical priest Ivan Illich spotted disturbing trends in medicine that most doctors continue to overlook.

"You’d take our ways of life apart / and reconstruct them into something better."

"Every now and then, / I know what the psalmist meant / fall into a hole in myself"

The Earth Liberation Front thought it could inspire an eco-revolution without the hard work of organizing. What can its failures teach us today?

In the wake of Trumpian destruction, Pope Leo's encyclical offers a model for rebuilding and repair.

Summoning more willpower couldn't keep Meghan O'Gieblyn sober. But perhaps the pursuit of beauty, inspired by Irish Murdoch and Simone Weil, could.

Patrick Deneen's 'American Odyssey' reads Homer instrumentally, transforming a rich epic into a neat model for social conservatism.

The USCCB has largely risen to the occasion in condemning MAGA nativism. We hope voters will remove it from power with all due haste.

Our dysfunctional Constitution has helped save us from Donald Trump.

"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."

We don't need uncritical reverence toward the Western intellectual tradition. But we do need to read it with generosity, rather than hardened suspicion.

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.