Courtesy | Unsplash Culture matters. And not just high culture. Don’t get me wrong — I love to talk about Shakespeare just as much as the next female Catholic English major on campus. But my goal here is something different. I propose popular culture matters. For better or worse, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the Cracker...
Courtesy | Unsplash The liberal consensus in America for decades has held that religious belief can and ought to be separated from political action. National and political identity have largely been seen as taking precedence over religious affiliation within the public square, to the degree that there is a conflict between the two. Such an...
Courtesy | Unsplash How can a nation be respected when its capital is ridden with crime? As reported by the White House, Washington, D.C.’s murder rate last year was higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia, and double that of Mexico City. Both cities are known for exporting cocaine and for housing cartels, and yet our...
Courtesy | Unsplash Two children were shot and killed last week at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, both students of Annunciation Catholic School, a pre-K–8 school about 20 minutes from my home. Within hours, the nation learned the killer was a biological male who identified as a woman. Standing outside the church mere hours later,...
Will you make babies the right way, or the old-fashioned way? Orchid, a reproductive technology startup, knows which option it would like you to pick. The company, which screens embryos for an extensive list of genetic diseases before clients select some for in vitro fertilization, frames the decision in language that appeals to parents’ deepest...