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BACKGROUND BRIEFING: RACE IN AMERICA
Race powerfully shapes the American experience. Race will shape our lives and our sense of self whet...
Read MoreCAN A WOMAN BEAT TRUMP? THE CULTURAL STRUCTURE OF #SEXISTRIDICULE
The survival of American democracy may depend upon defeating Donald Trump in 2020. Many highly quali...
Read MoreTHE CALLS OF CONSCIENCE: NORTHAM AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY
Ralph Northam's failure to resign offers yet further proof that he should do so: he doesn't get it. ...
Read MoreTHE SAVED, THE DAMNED, AND THE WALL: A BACKGROUND BRIEFING FOR PROGRESSIVES
Despite white-Christian support for Donald Trump's wall, authentic Christian tradition remains an in...
Read MoreON PRAYING FOR ENEMIES
Christians are supposed to pray for our enemies, so I've been praying for Donald Trump. I have not b...
Read MoreA SANE AND HONORABLE RESISTANCE: TWO MORAL PRINCIPLES
As the midterm elections loom, I've had repeated flashbacks to the moment when, in a grim little roa...
Read MoreWOMEN, DECEIT, AND DISORDER: GENDER AND THE SPIRITUAL GRAMMAR OF THE WEST
In the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee barged straight into every wo...
Read MoreWHY REASONABLE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY: ON EVIL, OPTIMISM, AND HOPE
Watching politics has come to feel something like watching the projected track of a mid-Atlantic hur...
Read MoreON FINDING MY VOICE AGAIN: LESSONS FROM A YEAR OF SILENCE
I finally had lunch with Bill last week. It took us a while to get together because his calendar i...
Read MoreMAKE NO MISTAKE: HEALTH POLICY IS A MORAL ISSUE. KRISTI L. KIRSCHNER MD
As a physician and bioethicist, I have spent the last 30 years caring for people during their most v...
Read MoreTHE SAVED, THE DAMNED, AND HEALTHCARE POLICY
The astounding cruelty of Trumpcare has elicited appropriate outrage: it's a tax cut for millionaire...
Read MoreWHAT "LIBERAL BIAS" MEANS—AND WHY WE NEED IT
Conservatives complain incessantly about "liberal bias" in the mainstream media. This conflict has e...
Read MoreFOUR REASONS WHY THE RESISTANCE NEEDS THE CHRISTIAN LEFT
As the Trump administration flounders, the progressive Left has an unprecedented opportunity to rec...
Read MoreCONFRONTING POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM: HOW TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY
[Note: in ordinary times, this would have been my next book. But the times are too urgent to wait fo...
Read MoreGIVING UP OUTRAGE FOR LENT
Like most of my friends, I've been fending off depression ever since the election. For my own menta...
Read MoreHow to Get Through to Republican Officials and Trump Supporters
Opposition to Mr. Trump risks fragmentation because there's simply too much to oppose, all of it hap...
Read MoreScapegoats Are a Diversionary Tactic
Donald Trump has been blowing a deliberate smokescreen with his ill-considered and unconstitutional ...
Read MoreCan Christians Question?
Evangelical pastor Timothy Keller told New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof that he's probably ...
Read MoreThe Moral Status of "Protest Votes": Three Theories
Theory #1: Consumer Choice. Here's the claim: how I vote reflects and expresses my identity. I sele...
Read MoreGay Marriage and Anglican Anxieties
Major regional bishops ("Primates") of the Anglican Communion have lobbed a bomb in the American cul...
Read MoreThe Refugee Crisis and the Moral Imagination of Democracy: How to Confront Xenophobic Fundamentalists
I want to whack certain people with a Bible verse. When ostentatiously "Christian" politicians malig...
Read MoreRoss Douthat's Three Mistakes
The predictable online conflagration has followed from Ross Douthat's broadsides against academic th...
Read MoreTell the Catholic Hardliners: Safe Sex Is Moral
The upcoming report from the Vatican Synod on the Family will be scrutinized six ways from Sunday fo...
Read MoreHOUSE REPUBLICAN SHOULD REDEFINE RINO: REASONABLE INTELLIGENT NORMAL OUTFIT.
With Kevin McCarthy's departure from the race for House Majority Leader, we face the very real possi...
Read MoreURBAN ANONYMITY: WE CAN'T NAME THE TASTE OF WHAT'S MISSING.
I have tasted the salt on another man's bread. The professor made much of the image, which was Dante...
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