It’s been a chaotic week in Washington, D.C., with a narrowly averted government shutdown and the historic ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. We speak...
Politics
As a child, I visited the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg. It was hard to imagine that peaceful scene—a lush, quiet field of gently waving tall grass—as...
The Second Amendment, adopted in 1791, justified replacing a standing army with properly controlled civilian militias responsible for defending certain...
Some people believe that the U.S. government is conducting research into UFOs at Area 51 or that the CIA was behind the assassination of President John F...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Are we on the path to a more just politics and equitable world? If we are, women are going to lead us there. It’s the...
In the 1960s, the grandfather of modern American conservatism, William F. Buckley, popularized the slogan, “Don’t immanentize the eschaton!” Aimed then at...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Just Politics celebrates Halloween by confronting some of the scariest elements of our pre-election season: election...
As Catholics we are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as members of a universal church. We understand our identity not just in terms of specific communities...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify As the 2022 midterm elections near, Sister Emily, Sister Eilis, Joan, and Colin discuss the importance of being a “Pope...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify The question of whether a priest should ever withhold communion from a Catholic has become the subject of heated debate in...
