Check out these recent articles from around the web: How democracy survives through standing together by Chris Crawford: “Our democracy’s survival will require sacrifice. We must be willing to do so with mercy, selflessness, and love.” Dear influencers: We are not built for this much intimacy by Elise Ureneck: “But we are not built for… Read More Around the Web

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?

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

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk by Tom Nichols: “As a private citizen, she can apologize for Assad and Putin to her heart’s content. But as a security risk, Gabbard is a walking Christmas tree of warning lights. If she is nominated to be America’s… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: America Does Not Need the Death Penalty by the New York Times: “Mr. Biden was right to identify capital punishment as a moral affront, and he should help relegate this practice to history.” Why Are Innocents Still Being Executed? by Elizabeth Bruenig: “America is currently experiencing… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Tearing down idols: William Cavanaugh’s theology is a must-read for the modern West by Fr. Patrick Gilger: “Because if it is not disenchantment but idolatry that we must beware of, then it is not re-enchantment but sacramentality that will provide the remedy. Countering idolatry, then, means… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: What’s Behind America’s Loneliness Crisis? by Ian Marcus Corbin: “The lonely will scramble for community, even if it requires believing or doing terrible things. No app or lifehack or doctor’s appointment is going to save us here. If the American experiment is going to survive the… Read More Around the Web