Politics

Article

‘When He Had Cash, He Bought Books’

Patrick MacGill was a self-taught polymath, a celebrated poet and fiction-writer. He was also my grandfather.

By Jo McGowan

October 4, 2024

Politics

Fiction

Europe

Article

A Not-So-Hostile Takeover

Long before the rise of Trump, the American conservative mainstream enjoyed a complex partnership with the Far Right.

By Gillis J. Harp

October 4, 2024

Article

Expected Turbulence

Eric Adams embodies the upwardly mobile hopes of many New Yorkers living in neighborhoods far from the centers of wealth and power—making his tenure as mayor all the more disappointing.

By Paul Moses

October 2, 2024

Politics

Domestic Affairs

Article

Why Do Student Protest Movements Fail?

The uncompromising idealism of student protesters is rooted in social and economic isolation and detachment.

By Paul Baumann

September 27, 2024

Middle East

Politics

Higher Education

Article

Pope Francis on Paths to God

Pope Francis has gone further than any of his predecessors in recognizing the value of non-Christian traditions.

By Thomas Banchoff

September 26, 2024

Article

Portrait of the Theologian as an Organizer

Gary Dorrien remembers his tumultuous adventures in post-Kantian philosophy and democratic socialist organizing.

By Gary Dorrien

September 25, 2024

Article

What’s Wrong with Weird?

A certain kind of obstinate weirdness is a first step to autocracy.

By Charles McNamara

September 24, 2024

Politics

Donald Trump

Election 2024

Article

Catholic Voices on Mute

Have Catholic bishops, theologians, and laypeople forgotten how to speak to the public?

By Massimo Faggioli

September 23, 2024

Article

Trump Is Dangerous as Ever

What matters more than anything is that Americans disappoint the GOP, which always hopes for a low turnout, and show up to the polls in record numbers.

By The Editors

September 23, 2024

Feature

‘It’s Worth It’

In a Mexico City migrant encampment, conditions are staggeringly poor—and gaining entry to the United States is the ultimate hope.

By Joseph Sorrentino

September 12, 2024

Immigration

Politics

Latin America

Article

Horatio Hillbilly

J. D. Vance's 'Hillbilly Elegy,' reconsidered.

By Peter Quinn

September 8, 2024

Politics

Books

Donald Trump

Article

It Happened Here

"When I watched the January 6 riot unfold on television, I remember being glad my kids were in school; if they had been home, I would have turned it off."

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

September 6, 2024

Donald Trump

Politics

Article

Freedom for What?

Should Democrats define themselves through an appeal to "freedom"?

By Paul Baumann

September 4, 2024

Article

When Hitchens Was Good

Christopher Hitchens was a champion detractor, a terrific hater, and always more fun to read when he was denouncing than when he was praising.

By Morten Høi Jensen

August 29, 2024

Books

Politics

Nonfiction

Article

New Faces, Old Faces, ‘Lethal’ Force

At their national convention in Chicago, Democrats adopted the more explicitly “patriotic” posture of an earlier era.

By Lucia Preziosi

August 27, 2024

Politics

Kamala Harris

Article

The Case that Never Ends

Will the Guantánamo cases ever be resolved?

By Miles Doyle

August 27, 2024

Politics

Domestic Affairs

Article

The Despotism of Money

Two excellent new books defend the liberal project with wisdom and clarity. So why do they yield such little hope?

By George Scialabba

August 26, 2024

Article

The Venezuelan Elections

Things have gone from bad to worse in Venezuela after the recent presidential election.

By Griffin Oleynick

August 23, 2024

Latin America

International

Politics

Article

Cracking Down on Tech Monopolies

This month, a federal judge determined that Google is a monopolist. It's the biggest antitrust ruling in over two decades.

By Regina Munch

August 23, 2024

Article

Harris & Gaza

"No more standing ovations for war criminals. No more empty warnings behind closed doors. And no more weapons for the collective punishment of an entire people."

By The Editors

August 20, 2024

Article

To Have or Have Not

What’s new is not that having kids has become less advantageous, but that they’re considered one possible project among many that one can choose.

By Dominic Preziosi

August 18, 2024

Women

Secularism and Modernity

Politics

Article

How the Losers Won

John Ganz's new book explores how the identity crises of the 1990s produced our dark political moment.

By Matt McManus

August 17, 2024

History

Books

Politics

Article

Captive Users

Should we put our highest hopes in changing the internet or in changing ourselves?

By Alexander Stern

August 15, 2024

Article

Phantasms & Fascists

Judith Butler's 'Who’s Afraid of Gender?' is a rambling diatribe.

By Tina Beattie

August 7, 2024

Gender

Politics

Books

Article

Two Americas?

Heather Cox Richardson argues that there are two Americas: one interested in equality, the other in hierarchy. But it's not that simple.

By Nicholas Misukanis

August 6, 2024

Politics

History

Donald Trump

Article

Harris’s Choice

Is Kamala Harris poised to dial down Biden's more populist initiatives?

By Justin H. Vassallo

July 31, 2024

Politics

Joe Biden

Kamala Harris

Article

J. D. Vance & the Cat Ladies

"I suspect Vance is on to something in assuming that many Americans will welcome a politician who is willing to unabashedly defend and even privilege families and child-rearing."

By Paul Baumann

July 30, 2024

Donald Trump

Politics

Culture

Article

Bernie’s Hail Mary

By backing Joe Biden until the bitter end, Bernie Sanders was tying himself to a sinking ship.

By Alexander Stern

July 29, 2024

Joe Biden

Politics

Article

Did ‘Churchianity’ Sink American Socialism?

Janine Giordano Drake’s new book locates institutional Protestant complicity with capital at the root of America's social ills.

By Heath W. Carter

July 26, 2024

Religion

Politics

History

Article

What to Make of Meloni?

Though the Vatican has largely kept it quiet, they see in Giorgia Meloni an ally on certain key social concerns.

By Massimo Faggioli

July 25, 2024

Article

What's Behind America's Loneliness Crisis?

Taking on America's loneliness crisis will require making ourselves a nation of agents.

By Ian Marcus Corbin

July 24, 2024

Culture

Politics

Domestic Affairs

Article

Biden's Choice

With his wise if overdue decision to withdraw from the race, Biden has spared himself and his party an almost certain defeat.

By The Editors

July 22, 2024

Article

‘All Nonsense and Lies’

It is far from clear that most Americans understand the dangers of political nihilism in 2024, or even care to understand it.

By Paul Baumann

July 20, 2024

Politics

Donald Trump

Election 2024

Article

The Windsor Affair

We need real reporters doing real reporting, not activists out to mug their enemies.

By Kenneth L. Woodward

July 19, 2024

Supreme Court

Politics

Article

Remembering Jane McAlevey

Jane McAlevey believed that the only reliable way to improve working conditions and create a more just society is for people to build their power to strike.

By Gordon Whitman

July 11, 2024

Politics

Labor

Article

Gravediggers of Democracy

Will Joseph R. Biden be the final name among the Gravediggers of Democracy?

By Peter Steinfels

July 10, 2024

Joe Biden

Politics

Donald Trump

Article

Biden’s Slow-Motion Disaster

How could Democratic Party leaders allow this to happen?

By Alexander Stern

July 9, 2024

Article

Revival and Revolution

A controversial historical claim grounds MAGA evangelicalism's embrace of the "Appeal to Heaven" flag.

By John Fea

July 2, 2024

Religion

Politics

Donald Trump

Article

Biden Should Step Aside

Democrats have been in denial about Biden’s deteriorating condition for a long time. The debate made it obvious that they can no longer afford such complacency.

By Dominic Preziosi

July 1, 2024

Politics

Joe Biden

Election 2024

Article

Toxic Tech

We cannot afford to sacrifice an entire generation to the heedless megalomania of half a dozen tech tycoons.

By Griffin Oleynick

June 29, 2024

Culture

Politics

Technology

Article

Urban Dreams

The coalition that Kathy Hochul unexpectedly activated has not won anything concrete yet—but it has demonstrated that it is possible to advocate for congestion pricing.

By Daniel Rober

June 28, 2024

Domestic Affairs

Politics

Article

The Politics of Prices

What's behind inflation? The evidence suggests supply-chain shocks and corporate profiteering are primarily to blame.

By The Editors

June 27, 2024

Article

Trump's Glitz and Graft

"The consistent thread here is cheating, whether in business or in personal life: the two mingled for Trump."

By Paul Moses

June 12, 2024

Donald Trump

Politics

Article

Can We All Agree to Dignity?

'Dignitas Infinita' provides a new way to navigate between secular human rights and the Church.

By Cathleen Kaveny

June 7, 2024

LGBTQ issues

Culture

Politics

Article

Nonviolence Against Nazism

Contrary to the oft-hurled objection to peace movements, "But what about Hitler?,” nonviolent action was successful enough to pique imaginations even under Nazi occupation.

By Gerald W. Schlabach

June 4, 2024

Politics

War and Peace

Article

… readers understand to be the situation of transgender people. I make this distinction … to apprehend even the basic situation of transgender people and therefore provides no … intellectual or moral guidance either for transgender Catholics or for their families, …

By Daniel Walden

June 2, 2024