America

March 2024

March 09, 2024
          Winners Unions Public teachers People with student loan debt People...

December 2022

December 09, 2022
A few years ago, my creeping moral unease with major pharmacy chains was galvanized by...

August 2019

August 06, 2019
Dorothy Day said that "I only love God as much as I love the person...
August 04, 2019
Every time news breaks of another public shooting, I've come to have the same sinking...

April 2019

April 20, 2019
You start by playing to fear. You will find plenty of people who, for various...

March 2019

March 23, 2019
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's response to the horrific mosque shootings in the city...

February 2019

February 02, 2019
There is a narrative being frequently reiterated by political analysts around the 116th Congress, particularly...

January 2019

January 06, 2019
This post began about a month ago, when I got a funding raising email from...

November 2018

November 04, 2018
Granted, it's never entirely not about the issues. The lawmakers we elect will invariably make decisions...

October 2018

October 24, 2018
Today being the anniversary of my confirmation, I decided to mark the day by going...

September 2018

September 01, 2018
Hearing the eulogies of Senator John McCain given by former presidents George W. Bush and...

March 2018

March 07, 2018
With every ritual post-shooting "national discussion," I grow more weary of saying the same things,...

November 2017

November 10, 2017
The death of Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner in September drew accolades as well as critiques...

October 2017

October 23, 2017
I've begun to suspect I may be approaching a personal metanoia on race.  I didn't think...
October 03, 2017
This is a commentary that has become all too routine. My colleagues and I here...

August 2017

August 26, 2017
If there’s one thing I have to credit The Donald for, it’s his marketing savvy....

February 2017

February 20, 2017
I find myself in a disorienting dilemma. Everything about Donald Trump repels me - to...
February 04, 2017
I've been thinking this week about an old movie I saw recently: Born Yesterday, in...

November 2016

November 06, 2016
This will not be about voting. It is, however, about lying awake imagining all the...

June 2016

June 05, 2016
Having previously interacted with Daniel Schwindt via Solidarity Hall (for which he edited the Radically...
June 27, 2015
I vividly recall the autumn of 2008. I had just moved from the US to...

April 2015

April 27, 2015
Vox Nova is pleased to welcome the following guest post by reader Mike McG… At...
April 13, 2014
Nine years ago the science fiction writer John Scalzi published a blog post entitled Being...

October 2013

October 25, 2013
The US government is (technically) functional again, and the national crisis has been (sort of)...

May 2013

May 15, 2013
Resolved:  The ills of individualism that grip the Catholic Church in America today are the...

February 2013

February 01, 2013
Throughout the whole gun-control debate one of the arguments against increased gun control was the...

December 2012

December 21, 2012
President Obama got it right: we can't tolerate this anymore. In his speech at Newtown's...
December 01, 2012
My friend and mentor Ivan Kauffman has finally published this long-simmering and very timely article...

October 2012

October 03, 2012
For some time now the level of political conversation possible in the public square of...

August 2012

August 04, 2012
Richard E. Pates, bishop of Des Moines, has an excellent essay in America on how...
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