Month: December 2024

Jesus Christ or Caesar Augustus?

Join Bishop Barron as he journeys through Bethlehem and reflects on who Jesus really is in the first episode of the CATHOLICISM series. Watch the entire film series for FREE at institute.wordonfire.org/catholicism-screening-episode1. The Christmas story is not just a charming tale we tell to children. It’s a powerful […]

James Baldwin Gets His Due

Our January 16 issue is now online, with James Shapiro on the Gen Z Romeo and Juliet, Ursula Lindsey on Syria after Assad, Adam Hochshild on the Scopes trial, Elaine Blair on the literature of consent, David Shulman on Israeli indifference, Darryl Pinckney on James Baldwin getting his due, […]

Abortion will not go away

Repro Nation Monthly | December 2024 Abortion will not go away Hello, Repro Nation readers!   In the afterword to their book We Choose To: A Memoir of Providing Abortion Care Before, During, and After Roe, Curtis Boyd, MD, and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, PhD, RN, reflect on the fact […]

On Becoming an Activist

Troy Southgate Dec 23, 2024 THOSE of you who have been involved in political activism for some time might find something familiar in what Søren Kierkegaard has to say about the way most people tend to view individuals who have dedicated themselves to a cause: “Humanly speaking, there […]

Mary never gave up on her…

The Mary Pages: An Atheist’s Journey to the Mother of God is unlike any memoir you’ve ever read. Author Sally Read, raised to be a committed atheist, shares the winding journey that led her to Catholicism—guided, from the start, by Mary. Through raw and epiphany-filled prose, Sally Read […]

Syrian Collapse Reverberates in China, Post-Liberalism and the Merging of State and Economy, European Pessimism/US Declinism, Frankfurt School in Napoli, Kickboy Face

Syrian Collapse Reverberates in China, Post-Liberalism and the Merging of State and Economy, European Pessimism/US Declinism, Frankfurt School in Napoli, Kickboy Face Niccolo Soldo Dec 22, 2024 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are […]

“Do Not Obey in Advance”: Timothy Snyder on How Corporate America Is Bending to Trump

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de… We speak with Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism, about how corporate America has responded to Donald Trump’s reelection. Snyder’s 2017 book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century came out just a month after Trump began his first […]

Unconscionable Punishment

Michael Huemer Dec 21, 2024 Here, I discuss America’s mass incarceration problem.* [ *Based on: “Unconscionable Punishment,” in Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration, ed. Chris Surprenant (Routledge, 2018), pp. 34-48. ] 1. The Incarceration Question America is the world leader in incarcerating people, with about […]