It’s all too easy to doze off and imagine that ideological debates take place in a realm disconnected from our everyday lives, a social universe characterized by engagement without burdensome emotional...
Georgetown University’s campus will host two panel discussions about abortion and reproductive healthcare this week.
One event, the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life (OCC), the nation’s largest...
College: a time for exploration, trying new things and meeting new people. It’s an era designed to encourage branching out and engaging with alternate viewpoints. And yet, we as a generation are further...
In the weeks since the latest flare in conflict between Israel and Hamas began, communities across the country have continued to become more politically polarized. Deep-rooted political cries and a tenuous...
From 2005 to 2009 and again from 2017 to 2021, I served as a United Nations (U.N.) official based in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
I arrived during Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza...
We’ve all had those talks — the ones that drift into politics like a ship getting sucked into a whirlpool. Everything is so peaceful, and all of a sudden, a conversation about the presidential election...
Rigorous debate is widely accepted as a vital part of students' formative college years, when their beliefs can be challenged by exposure to diverse perspectives.
Yet the attempts to suppress opposing...
Our country is becoming all too familiar with some variant of the phrase, “I don’t like politics: It’s all too dirty.”
It is no secret that we have entered an era in which American politics...
Today, the day of the presidential election, we recognize that most voters’ minds are made up, absentee ballots have been cast and ideological trenches dug. People know that Republican nominee Donald...
Schall holds the minority opinion that used bookstores may be more important to civilization than universities. You ask, of course, where would used bookstores get their used books if there were no professors...
