Americans’ booming economy and unparalleled affluence are the envy of the world. Our entertainment technology keeps us constantly amused. We have the freedom to do pretty much whatever we like. So why are Americans so stressed out? According to a global Gallup poll aimed at assessing
Ross Douthat says that our Notre Dame Cathedral–an edifice constructed by thousands of creative people over the course of many years that expresses their deepest beliefs and values–is the Marvel Comics Universe as capped off by the movie Avengers: Endgame. In making that comparison, he quotes
We Protestants don’t go by patron saints, but if there were to be a patron saint of literature, it should be St. John Chrysostom, that last name being an epithet for “golden-mouthed.” Now I know why. In the reading group I attend with area pastors
Whom you wish to hurt, you first must dehumanize. Thinking of some people as less human than you are, making you incapable of feeling empathy for them and treating them with compassion, is an ethical fault with wide implications. Notice how defenders of abortion dehumanize
“There is no returning to the pre-Trump conservative consensus that collapsed in 2016.” So concludes a group of conservative thinkers who have issued a manifesto about how a rebooted conservatism needs to be. According to Against the Dead Consensus, the Reagan-era conservative consensus–an alliance of
The impending demise of us Baby Boomers will soon mean a boom in deaths. And what we in my generation have done to American culture, we are doing to funerals. From Karen Heller, The funeral as we know it is becoming a relic — just
A piece of fruit is green at first, but after awhile it ripens, reaching its peak of deliciousness. But if it continues to ripen past that point, the fruit starts to decay, until it becomes utterly rotten and decomposes. Not just fruit but other things
All the Democrats have to do to defeat Donald Trump is to hold onto the states won by Hillary Clinton and flip the historically-Democratic rust belt states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania that went for Trump. That means winning over white blue collar voters, which
In the division of labor, different people do different kinds of work for each other, with each specialized task contributing to the common good. The division of labor, with the means of exchange between each division, is a basic concept of economics. For Plato, the
There is anti-semitism. There is Islamophobia. A leader of Coptic Christianity, responding to the Sri Lanka church bombings, says that the world must also recognize “anti-Christianism.” From Christian Today (UK): The head of the UK Coptic Orthodox Church has called on faith communities to make
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