Check out these recent articles from around the web:

Inequality Is Not Inevitable by Joseph E. Stiglitz: “The American political system is overrun by money. Economic inequality translates into political inequality, and political inequality yields increasing economic inequality.”

Assisted dying is the final triumph of market capitalism by Giles Fraser: “Assisted dying is the final triumph of market capitalism: we have become consumers in everything, even when it comes to life and death. And as history demonstrates, the losers in this equation are always going to be the most vulnerable.”

David Brooks’s 5-Step Guide to Being Deep by Uri Friedman: “Brooks’s objective is to establish a ‘counterculture’ to our happiness culture and our resume culture.”

A Bishop Who ‘Gets’ Pope Francis by Michael Sean Winters: “Every mention of the sacred in Evangelii Gaudium involves relationships, people, solidarity. While some bishops are trying to explain away the pope’s trenchant cultural critiques, or privatize them, here we have a bishop who is still reading the pope’s words and finding new insights there.”

No Honour in Honour Killing: Recovering Shame as a Moral Force by Kwame Anthony Appiah: “Emancipating Pakistani women from the threat of honour killing will require more than the urgings of morality, religion and reason. In order to align what people know with what they do, we must try to reshape their codes of honour, using shame and even carefully calibrated ridicule. Pakistanis who now take honour killing for granted need to recognize that their country is disgraced by allowing these wrongs.”

Charity Fueled by Faith: Pier Giorgio Frassati’s Option for the Poor by Brandon Vogt: “ Pier Giorgio didn’t focus only on individual charity. In line with Catholic social teaching, he also advocated for institutional justice.”