Zohran Mamdani and his supporters are anything but afraid. They are hopeful of making life in the city better and optimistic about the government’s role in doing so.
For all their differences, both Jordan Peterson and Ross Douthat engage in a pragmatic effort to enlist belief on behalf of a reactionary political project.
We live in a culture where everyone actually wants to be elite—even though more and more people are decrying elitism. What would it mean to embrace our own blessed ordinariness?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t “take away anybody’s vaccines," but as secretary of HSS, he is steadily dismantling our national vaccine infrastructure.
Fifty years ago, the Helsinki Accords reflected a bipolar world dominated by the U.S. Today, Pope Leo XIV faces a geopolitical environment that is far more unpredictable.
William F. Buckley's critique of Pope John XXIII was one of the most daring episodes in the conservative eminence's career. He later wished it never had happened.
Close to one in five American Catholics is vulnerable to President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” regime. Paul Moses reports on how this monstrous policy will wound the U.S. Church.
Insofar as Catholic neglect of the plight of the Palestinians stems from guilt about the Holocaust, it’s long past time to rethink how this guilt is addressed.
Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir is a horrifying exposé of misbehavior at Facebook. But she never fully explains why she joined such a ruthless company in the first place.
Canada needs a prime minister capable of taking on the megalomaniac leading its once reliable and friendly neighbor to the south. Is Mark Carney the man for the moment?
As federal funding for scientific research declines, the shift to the private sector may spark innovation—but it also risks basic research slipping into the world of industrial secrets.
Donald Trump’s authoritarian assault on the country has drawn different responses from Democrats. For his part, Bernie Sanders has taken to the road on his "Fighting Oligarchy Tour."
For novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, the ambition to associate oneself with the universality that France symbolized was not in tension with the desire to tell the story of Latin America.
The risk of nuclear war is higher now than it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Catholic principles of just peace can move us back from the brink.
In Burma and Thailand, humble faith-based organizations respond to a humanitarian crisis borne of civil war, a devastating earthquake, and Trump's foreign-assistance cuts.
Lent is a season of reflection—but also a season to prepare for the work ahead, to sweep aside everything that has not worked and find new ways through the desert.
Trump and Vance display a profound failure to understand the hidden strengths of democracies—and the weaknesses of the authoritarian regimes they hope to emulate.
