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In Defense of Argument

Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the most important Catholic philosophers of the twentieth century, described the university as a site of “institutionalized conflict”—an argument extended through time. Implicit in MacIntyre’s description of the university is a favorable view of the experience of argument and the act of arguing. That view has deep root...


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Ancient Footprints Are Everywhere

There is something reassuring about the photos released by the Vatican on Wednesday, November 4, of Bob Dylan and Pope Leo XIV. Some have conflated their meeting with the Democratic romp in Tuesday’s midterm elections—the aspiration being that we are witnessing some sort of new American dawn, a resurgent hope for the city on the hill....


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Mission Critical

Almost a decade ago, I spent months investigating the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, or FOCUS, a national college-outreach and evangelization program that, at the time, was operating on 137 campuses around the country. My 


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Christian Nationalism on the March

Jared Huffman’s No Prophets gives a disturbing recitation of the many Christian-nationalist groups that have risen to prominence in recent decades. One of them is the New Apostolic Reformation (NA...


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'He Cares What I Think'

Longtime readers of Commonweal might remember the late associate editor and essayist Daria Donnelly, who wrote a biannual column on children’s literature until her death in 2004. Donnelly was continuing a feature begun in the 1940s by Claire Huchet Bishop, a Swiss librarian and accomplished children’s-book author who served for decades...


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