As chronicled in countless news stories and reports, trust in social institutions is low. The integrity and transparency of these institutions gets a bad grade from the public, and social institutions ...

Here is the relevant exchange between McLaughlin and Barrett: NR: We're now in a position where there are critics of originalism from the right — people who say: It's too legally positivist. It ...

Three people wearing shirts that say "Volunteers," stand behind a table with bottled water, boxes labeled as medicine. Image by RDNE Stock Project via Pexels. In this essay I’d like to look at what’s ...

This article is an edited excerpt from the forthcoming book, The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good (Catholic University of America Press, June 2023, 228 pages).

In the Christian Scriptures, Jesus and the authors employ a number of literary devices, from parables and sayings to irony and metaphors. The aim is to help friends or enemies conceptualize Jesus’ ...

The US flag flies at half mast outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 29, 2023. - A heavily armed former student killed three young children and three staff in what appeared to be a ...

In the more than two centuries since Joseph McKeen first introduced the idea that graduates of Bowdoin College were under 'peculiar obligation' to exert their talents for the 'benefit of society,' an ...