When it comes to corporate social responsibility (CSR), the principle caveat emptor takes on a special urgency: What we think we are getting and what we actually get are sometimes two very different things. Continue Reading...
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September 18, 2025
Subsidiarity, Not Supranationalism
There is a deeply misguided belief that the road to justice lies in the consolidation of authority into ever-larger international institutions, particularly in the post-Christian landscape of global governance and political power. Continue Reading...
September 17, 2025
Assisted Dying in the UK: Let’s Win the Argument on Principle
The House of Lords, with its resplendent red leather benches, a throne for the monarch at the state opening of Parliament, a rather uncomfortable-looking cushion seat (known as “the Woolsack”) from which the Speaker of the House presides over proceedings, and a host of history, architecture, and traditions, is a unique feature of the British constitution. Continue Reading...
September 16, 2025
Rutger Bregman’s Vision: Moral Ambition Without Imagination
We’ve all read about ideologues who had a centralized plan to save the world. Well add one more to the list. Trending right now is a man named Rutger Bregman. He is passionate, eloquent, and articulate—and he seeks to rapidly transform our country (and, indeed, the entire world) into a socialist utopia. Continue Reading...
September 12, 2025
Baseball and Education: Learning Through Repetition
One constant in American life is a debate about schooling. Educators and psychologists repeatedly erase blackboard plans and chalk up new ones. Screens in the 2010s are saviors, and in the 2020s devils. Continue Reading...
September 11, 2025
The Murder of Charlie Kirk
As has become well-known by now, on Wednesday conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, 31, was murdered during the fall kickoff of “The American Comeback Tour” held on the campus of Utah Valley University. Continue Reading...
September 10, 2025
Whose Body? Whose Self?
In Dorothy Sayers’s 1923 whodunit, Whose Body?, an unidentified dead body, naked but for a pince-nez, is mysteriously dropped off in the bathtub of a perfectly ordinary, respectable home. Who is Mr. Continue Reading...
September 09, 2025
St. John Henry Newman: Doctor of Conscience
On July 31, the Vatican announced that Pope Leo XIII will declare St. John Henry Newman, the 19th-century English Catholic convert priest, theologian, philosopher, educational theorist, and writer, a “Doctor of the Church.” Continue Reading...
September 05, 2025
When “Reproductive Rights” Become Cultural Imperialism
At a United Nations event, Nigerian biomedical scientist Obianuju Ekeocha responded to a Western official’s claim that denying African women access to abortion was a form of colonization. Her reply went viral, not because it was loud, but because it was rooted. Continue Reading...
September 04, 2025
Why a Swift Proposal May Not Mean More Marriages
Taylor Swift’s long-anticipated engagement to Travis Kelce has predictably dominated the recent news cycle. Wedding bells have been ringing in editorial rooms ever since the two started dating in 2023, so when Kelce finally proposed, photos of the Kansas City Chief All-Pro embracing the pop star jumped from screen to screen, prompting a myriad of think pieces. Continue Reading...
