“And the Word Was Made Flesh”: Placing Ethnicity in the Gospels...
It is a recognition of the beauty and goodness of ethnic diversity combined with a message of universal love and mercy that should be at the heart of a true Christian politics.
Waging Culture Wars Justly
To fight a culture war justly is to be confident that your arguments have a reasonable chance of success; but this means that to fight justly is not only about carefully crafting arguments but also about sensitively observing the context in which you will deploy them.
Why Love Belongs in Politics
Lubbock, TX. One month ago, the Senate concluded the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. The process was almost purely partisan: Republicans, who control...
What Urban Liberals Might Learn From Rural Rebels
Loka Ashwood, a rural sociologist at Auburn University, visited The Land Institute in Salina, KS, last September, and gave a presentation on her then...
A Country Boy Can Thrive
You can leave your corner of the country without escaping it. And these memoirs testify to the importance of bringing something back.
Catholic Social Thought, Abraham Lincoln, and Common Good Capitalism
One need not support every economic prescription of the distributists or Lincoln. Each, however, presents certain principles that we can use to orient our economic thinking in the era of global capitalism.
Teddy Roosevelt’s Prophetic Speech: The Perpetual Relevance of “The Man in...
Roosevelt delivered an oration he entitled “Citizenship in a Republic,” but which the world would soon come to call “The Man in the Arena.” Every fresh reading of the speech brings something new into bold relief.
Whither Liberalism?
We live, to borrow the title from Daniel T. Rodgers’s excellent 2011 book, in an age of fracture. Whether any time in history has been...
Adapt or Die: Kunstler’s Guide to Living in the Long Emergency
James Howard Kunstler follows the first commandment handed down to all of us at birth: “Thou shalt not be dull.”
My Mask, My Choice
Unfortunately, much of what is currently driving the discussion is not reason nor compassion but anger.