Abandoning social customs tends to benefit elites by reinforcing social barriers rather than removing them.
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Who is the cause of society’s polarization? All of us.
Unless we are willing to admit that, then the situation will only get worse.
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“America” is not a synonym for the United States
From its founding, the name of this review has signified a social and political reality that transcends the borders of the United States.
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What’s more dangerous than a dictatorship of relativism? A dictatorship of positivism.
The battles being waged in the public square are not so much about whether ultimate truths exist, but which absolute “truths” will govern public affairs.
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Fear makes life harder. But faith makes freedom possible.
Bernice was smiling because she was free. Her horizon, which was her hope, was not her bed, or the ward, or the hospital—not even this world. Bernice’s eyes were fixed on the hope of heaven.
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Life in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
The late Fred Rogers is currently enjoying something of a post-mortal renaissance.
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To save public debate, we must rescue academic philosophy from its self-induced irrelevance.
Moral crises are preceded by metaphysical and epistemological confusion. In other words, the cause of the present lies in our past.
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Why do we remove some statues and not others?
Why is the statue of General Lee gone and the statue of General Sherman still there?
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No one had ever done a comprehensive survey of Catholic women. So we did.
This issue of America presents the findings of the most comprehensive survey of U.S. Catholic women ever conducted.
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To end abortion, we need to narrow the gap between civil and moral law
The whole array of potential threats to life and human dignity is interrelated.