Matthew Sitman

The bishops’ insistence on abortion as the preeminent political issue reveals their resistance to Pope Francis’s call to serve the common good in all its complexity.

By Matthew Sitman

November 21, 2019

Abortion

Article

Making the Rich Pay

Studies show that the rich tend to be less empathetic and more selfish. Electoral politics, and policy change, is a promising way to take back what they’ve stolen.

October 30, 2019

Article

Helping & Hurting

The first Democratic debates featured a flawed format. The progressive vision of Sanders and Warren set the tone, but Harris, Buttigieg, and Castro also stood out.

June 28, 2019

Article

Gossip & Insight

Edmund White knew that writers were most compelling when exploring a subject they were of two minds about: when they could see it from one angle, then another.

December 15, 2018

Must Reads

Politics

Good, but Not Good Enough

Joe Biden has adopted Elizabeth Warren’s bankruptcy plan, reversing his 2005 position. But even with it, will he be able to address the underlying causes of debt?

By Matt Mazewski

March 23, 2020

Religion

Against the Infernalists

David Bentley Hart’s book makes the case for universal salvation, arguing that a belief in eternal damnation is morally repugnant and theologically insupportable.

By Karen Kilby

March 16, 2020