Western Buddhism & Its Current Discontents

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and members of his cabinet will be holding a news conference in Hamilton Monday after Canada-U.S. trade talks failed, with the premier telling Trump to "kiss my ass" as the f...

In his first comments since trade talks broke down, President Donald Trump said Canada "wants the benefits" of being a U.S. state "without being one." The president's brief post on his Truth Social pl...

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Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a massive hit — and nearly everyone on the Right, from Elon Musk to the Daily Wire, is furious. Because what 21st-century conservatives really want is a profound cheapen...

The solidarity behind socialism must be one of recognizing our flaws and correcting—and forgiving—them as much as we can.

Some Thoughts on Marsha M. Linehan’s Memoir: Building a Life Worth Living

I wanted to express appreciation for Peter Lamb’s generous review of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism. Lamb’s review stresses the book’s scholarly merits and suggests it will be “very resourc...

Notes on a Second Renaissance & Democracy to Come

Notes on a Second Renaissance & Democracy to Come

What is Liberal Socialism? investigates the radical tradition of liberal socialism and makes a case for its relevance in a Trumpian era. Liberalism and socialism have long been understood as mortal e...

When Greg Grandin reduces Gustavo Gutiérrez and Pope Benedict XVI to political figures, he neglects what's most important about their work.

Religion is playing a far greater role in economic growth and prosperity than many people realize, affecting education, family size and savings, according to the Berlin-based think tank the Rockwool F...

Prime Minister Mark Carney shrugged off U.S. president Donald Trump's latest jab about Canada being the 51st state as a post by an "exceptionally active user of social media."

For many of us, David Harvey was our introduction to Marxism. Whether it was the seminal course on Capital that went viral after the recession, his famous books on postmodernism or neoliberalism, or t...

Terrence Sweeney on fundamental ontology.

Pope Leo XIV urges experts revising the World Medical Association's Declaration of Taipei to strengthen ethical safeguards for health databases and ...

For my Lady Down by the Harbour

“I came that they might have life and have it abundantly,” proclaimed Jesus. (John 10:10)

"This teaching document draws from and supports a more fundamental Christian doctrine: the inherent goodness of creation generally and our own materiality in particular," writes Daniel P. Horan.

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Marking the 135th anniversary of Rerum novarum, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical, entitled ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human ...

In B.C. to meet with the province's premier who is sceptical of another oil pipeline, Prime Minister Mark Carney said the world is in the throes of an "energy crisis" and Canada must do its part to su...

Ahead of the beatification of Czech priests Fathers Jan Bula and Václav Drbola, who were martyred under Communist rule, Cardinal Michael Czerny, ...

Matthew McManus reviews Samuel Moyn's Gerontocracy in America, praising its core claims and prescriptions and lingering on its existential themes.

Pivotal players have emerged in the conversation — despite never having seen AI firsthand: Jesuit Father Bernard Lonergan and French philosopher René Girard.

Pope Leo XIV signs his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum. Set for release May 25, the document addresses preserving human dignity amid AI's transformatio...

After a crushing defeat, the NDP turns to Avi Lewis and left populism in search of a comeback

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said Monday that he had a respectful and positive meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump 's special envoy to the Arctic territory, but that he made i...

The U.S. undersecretary of defence says Washington is pausing a long-standing military board, saying

The Trump administration is walking away from a long-running body that works on Canada-U.S. defence initiatives, claiming Canada has failed to meet its commitments on defence spending.

The Alberta Medical Association is calling on the provincial government to adopt dozens of safeguards as the province crafts regulations designed to allow physicians to practise in both the public and...

The late German thinker and teacher brought liberal secularism to the pinnacle of academic political philosophy.

In a rescript signed by Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Pope Leo XIV approves the creation ...

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(RNS) — The spiritual-but-not-religious helped create a void in public life that is now being filled in ways we didn’t anticipate and frankly don’t like. I know because I’m one of them.

In a letter commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo,” Pope Leo reminds the academic institution that truth ...

Every year the American Library Association marks “Banned Books Week,” a celebration devoted mostly to books…