Jason Blakely’s new book, “Lost in Ideology,” is “quite simply the best guide to today’s dominant ideologies,” writes William Cavanaugh. “Blakely is concise, sympathetic, insightful, critical and fair.”
William T. Cavanaugh
William T. Cavanaugh is a professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University in Chicago.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Electing Republicans has not reversed Roe v. Wade. It’s time to change our strategy.
Abortion may indeed be the preeminent issue for Catholic voters, writes William T. Cavanaugh. But the premise that a Republican court majority will overturn Roe v. Wade is deeply flawed.
Posted inIn All Things
Reply to ‘A View From Abroad’ by Massimo Faggioli
We are the people Massimo Faggioli warned you about In his article seeking an end to the political polarization of Catholics in the United States Faggioli mentions us by name as representing the road not to follow We are accused of ldquo withdrawal nbsp from the nation-state rdquo ldquo withd
Posted inOf Other Things
Good Corp, Bad Corp
Citizen United protects free speech but ignores disparities of power among different speakers.
Posted inFrom Our Archives
The Root of Evil: Does religion promote violence?
The Boston Marathon bombings have fed fears of terrorism and also given new encouragement to one of our society’s preferred ways of dealing with the fear of terrorism: we assign it to the realm of the irrational, to which we oppose the rationality of our own society. The revelation that the pe