via the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life: As an eventful 2024 comes to an end and we approach a new year, a new presidential administration, and a new Congress, how can American Catholics and people of good will bring principles of Catholic social thought—human life and dignity, family and community, solidarity and… Read More Catholic Responsibilities and Opportunities After the Election and Synod
Michael Sean Winters writes: Can the Democrats perform a proper autopsy?: We should be suspicious of monocausal explanations for the defeat, but the largest reason seems to be that the Trump campaign successfully placed their candidate on the winning side of the “diploma divide.” As David Brooks noted at The New York Times about the… Read More What Went Wrong for the Democrats in 2024?
At the NY Times, Pope Francis writes: Narcissists are continually looking into the mirror, painting themselves, gazing at themselves, but the best advice in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us. It will prove the truth of the proverb that there are only two kinds of perfect people:… Read More Pope Francis: There Is Faith in Humor
via the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose: On November 14th 2024, Prof Mazzucato convened a historic dialogue at the Vatican, featuring Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley and Pope Francis, to make the case for a fundamental reimagining of economics to serve the common good. This conception of economics is underpinned by the… Read More Economics of the Common Good
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Life expectancy gap in U.S. widens to 20 years due to “truly alarming” health disparities, researchers say healthwatch by Sara Moniuszko: “In 2000, life expectancy ranged from an average of 70.5 years for Americans at the lowest end to 83.1 years for those in the highest… Read More Around the Web
Samantha Power, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, writes: The Syrian people have endured 14 years of brutal civil war and 24 years under the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, who stayed in power by torturing and killing – including with chemical weapons – any of his people who dared to oppose him.… Read More The End of the Butcher Bashar al-Assad’s Murderous Regime
David Brooks writes: In trying to construct a society that maximized talent, Conant and his peers were governed by the common assumptions of the era: Intelligence, that highest human trait, can be measured by standardized tests and the ability to do well in school from ages 15 to 18. Universities should serve as society’s primary… Read More Reimagining Our Broken Meritocracy
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