No one I knew in Los Angeles was afraid to go downtown. That is, they were unafraid until President Donald Trump called in the National Guard and then the Marines.
Jason Blakely
Jason Blakely is a professor of political science and political philosopher at Pepperdine University in California. He is the author most recently of Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life and a senior fellow at the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought.
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What Pope Francis taught us: Church teaching finds clarity and power in acts of mercy
Pope Francis taught the church that the magisterium finds its clarity not merely in propositions but in acts of mercy.
Posted inFaith, Features
An atheist’s return to the Catholic Church: a story of death, love and meaning
From Nietzsche and Heidegger to Charles Taylor, Dostoevsky and the Gospels, one believer’s journey to faith.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We’re all responsible for the toxic discourse that lets Marjorie Taylor Greene and Father Altman thrive
The temptation in current U.S. politics is to treat all of one’s opponents the same: not just evil, but blameworthy for every imaginable form of evil.
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We should pay less attention to polls. Pope Francis would agree.
The popular “scientific” discourse around election forecasting has once again proven disappointingly misguided, at best, and fraudulent, at worst. Our democracy deserves better.
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Pope Francis wants Catholics to dare to dream of a better way of doing politics
With the much-anticipated release of Pope Francis’s new encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” on Oct. 4, Catholic Christians would do well to revisit his critique of false realism and false nostalgia, and his call for the church to foster a political attitude of faithful and daring dreaming.
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A dialogue on the ‘new nationalism’
Signatories of two recent open letters, one embracing a “new nationalism” and the other warning of its dangers, engage each other’s concerns and questions.
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Whose nation? Which communities? The fault lines of the new Christian nationalism
From a unity deeper than citizenship, that of baptism, we implore our fellow Christians: Join us in denouncing this violence, and help us understand what distance is left between that nationalism and yours.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Sexual abuse and the culture of clericalism
Clericalism poses the question: How are all Catholics complicit in a culture in which abuse is rampant?
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Why Paul Ryan’s ‘economic approach’ to politics clashes with Catholic teaching
The conflict between Mr. Ryan’s libertarianism and his Catholicism rests on rival anthropologies.