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Francis in Hungary
In Budapest last week, one of Europe’s leaders gave a passionate speech critiquing the “ideological colonization” that has overtaken the European project. Christianity, this leader said, could provide a...
Advancing in Place
We’re stuck. The signal innovations of modern times—mass water purification, electricity, automobiles, modern manufacturing processes—are behind us. This slowing of invention presents a problem. We are trapped by the...
Signs of Hope in Budapest
If you’re like me, this year’s International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest hasn’t been on your radar. But by happenstance, when I arrived in Budapest last week for a yearlong...
Toward a Family Wage
Family policy has assumed center stage on the American right. Lawmakers are focused on the impending passage of a COVID relief bill that could include, for the first time,...
The Mass Is the First Necessity
When Pope St. John Paul II appeared on the balcony of St. Peter’s after his election, his words to the crowd were, “Be not afraid.” In the years following,...
The Case for Yellow Checks
Bishop Robert Barron, the Los Angeles auxiliary and Catholic media personality, recently suggested to the National Catholic Register that bishops “introduce something like a mandatum for those who claim to...
Liberalism Against the Church
The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Centuryby helena rosenblattprinceton, 368 pages, $35 Liberalism, says Helena Rosenblatt, has grown ineffective as it has forgotten the...
Toward Dystopia
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by nick bostrom oxford, 352 pages, $29.95 Since cofounding the World Transhumanist Association in 1998, the Swedish-born Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom has attempted to give...
Explaining Agamben
The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government by giorgio agamben translated by lorenzo chiesa, with matteo mandarini stanford, 328 pages, $70 The Highest...
Anti-Antipolitics
In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible by Michael Walzer Yale, 256 pages, $28 In the Bible, argues Michael Walzer, God casts a shadow over human politics, making...
