War experience, and trauma more generally, can be an assault not only on one’s physical sense of safety, but on one’s social, moral, and spiritual conception of the world.
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With Anti-Semitism on the rise, can Poland come to terms with its past?
For almost 20 years Polish scholars have been at the cutting edge of Holocaust research. But a law proposed this year threatened to change all that.
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Should we be worried about A.I.? Theologians, philosophers and Catholic thinkers weigh in
As Facebook, Apple and Google pour billions into artificial intelligence, ethicists and moral philosophers are racing to keep up, and Catholic thinkers are looking ahead to the possible harms to humanity.
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Donald Trump: the president of expressive individualism
President Trump’s triumph has revealed in stark relief how few authentic conservatives are left in our expressivist land.
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The year the Democrats met the democratic socialists
Regardless of who wins in November, what happens next for the social-justice movement in America?
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Will the Trump presidency lead to renewed dialogue between Catholics and Evangelicals?
Whether evangelicalism survives Donald J. Trump depends upon whether it has leaders who are able to disentangle its political witness from the dimensions of Mr. Trump’s presidency that have so clearly scandalized the Gospel witness.
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Can we use public health models to cure the disease of gun violence?
From the streets of Chicago to hospital halls in the Bronx, volunteers are trying to end the national scourge of gun violence by treating it as a virus, preventing victims from becoming perpetrators.
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The fight to save the soul of the G.O.P.
The G.O.P. was founded to oppose slavery, which makes it all the more ironic that the party of freedom finds itself in bondage—to itself.
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How to Choose the Right Godparent
The work of choosing and being a godparent can lead to hurt feelings, dashed expectations—and the occasional influx of unexpected grace.
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The Uncertain Future of Jesuit Education
Jesuit institutions need to offer persuasive alternatives to the dystopian narratives that shape our personal and institutional psyches.