The United States, on its 250th birthday, is a country in decline. American Catholics should embrace this sour semiquincentennial as a moment for discernment.
During an anxious Christmas season, if the ground starts to give beneath our feet, we might cleave to the hope that there will be someone close at hand to listen.
The socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg embodied precisely what we need today: a politics that seeks the flourishing of all creatures and recognizes the radicalism of that demand.
