Stop Assisted-Suicide Opioid Abuse

by Wesley J. Smith

Doctors are prescribing opioids for patients' use in committing suicide—federal law should put an end to it.   Continue Reading »

4 Aug 2017

Learning From Charlie Gard

by Charles C. Camosy

Charlie Gard's legacy on this earth may well be a disturbing increase in euthanasia. Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2017

The Bitter Truth About Our Economy and Ourselves

by Pete Spiliakos

How can we reform our institutions to make them better for America's low-skilled workers?  Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2017

Questions of Competence

by George Weigel

A recent article in La Civiltà Cattolica grossly misrepresented American religious history; what kind of vetting did it get? Continue Reading »

2 Aug 2017

The Very Model of a Modern Catholic Statesman?

by John M. Howting

Though drawing the ire of his older colleagues, Euroskeptic MP Jacob Rees-Mogg is gaining a large following among British youth. Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2017

First Church of Intersectionality

by Elizabeth C. Corey

I recently attended an academic conference at the University of Notre Dame called “Intersectional Inquiries and Collaborative Action: Gender and Race.” It felt like a return to my undergraduate years in the early 1990s. I saw women with shaved heads wearing ethnic print scarves, Birkenstocks, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2017

Back to Work

by John Waters

In 1974, the year I turned nineteen, I took my first real job in the goods store of a railway station in County Mayo, in the west of Ireland. I was pleased to be off my parents’ hands, but uneasy in my position. The tiny goods office was an anthill of activity, with a constant flow of locomotive . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2017

Liberal Ressentiment

by Julius Krein

Age of Anger: A History of the Presentby pankaj mishrafarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $26 Despite the subtitle of his book, Pankaj Mishra is not interested in understanding the past or the present. His aim, instead, is to dispose of those who voted for Trump, Brexit, Netanyahu, or Modi, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2017

Letters

by Various

R. R. Reno is sympathetic to nationalism because he sees it as a reaction against disenchantment (“Return of the Strong Gods,” May). While I agree that “the banishment of love from our politics is creating the populism that presently troubles us,” it doesn’t strike me that this populism . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2017

Pontifex Minimus

by Paul V. Mankowski

Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivityby james martin, s.j.harperone, 150 pages, $19.99 Is sodomy a sin? Perplexed readers of Fr. James Martin, S.J.’s latest book will want to put the question to him, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2017