Politics

Could it be that the political “venom” of Trumpism has helped inoculate European leaders against strategies of extreme divisiveness and brinksmanship?

By Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

November 8, 2018

Foreign Affairs

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Economy

Article

A Measure of Hope

The midterm elections show that democracy is still very much alive in the United States; but the Democrats need to offer messaging adequate to the moment

November 7, 2018

Article

Are We Really So Divided?

The signal here, amidst all the noise that Trump is generating, is that Americans yearn for a very different style of politics

November 5, 2018

Must Reads

Politics

A State without Suicide

T. G. Masaryk fathered a Czech version of national socialism: a tolerant democratic party with respect for human rights.

By John Connelly

October 16, 2018

Religion

Our Myth, Their Lie

At the root of the sex abuse crisis is structure, the way church governance has calcified in past centuries; that structure has to go

By James J. Heaney

November 1, 2018

Religion

Peace on Murder Mile

Rev. Bill Shaw, a Presbyterian minister in a Catholic neighborhood of Belfast, is working to soothe generations of sectarian strife.

By Philip Metres

October 14, 2018

Culture

Haters & the Marketplace of Ideas

Hate speech is on the rise in the United States, and divisions continue to worsen. How to counter the downward drift?

By Rand Richards Cooper

November 2, 2018

Books

The Enlightenment We Need

In an era of looming climate apocalypse and aimless elites, the Enlightenment has the potential to anchor projects of social emancipation and ecological sanity

By James Chappel

November 8, 2018

Collections

The Church That Has to Come

A series of reported reflections from Rome, where bishops and young people are gathering this October to discuss the future of the church

By Griffin Oleynick

October 16, 2018