Decivilization May Already Be Under Way
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed.
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From his actions, and the glee that they have elicited, one learns not that the health-care system is broken but that many people are.
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America’s most watched bishop, Robert Barron, is scouting out a new future for Christianity.
Brendan George Ko The Hawaiians Who Want Their Nation Back
In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Islands’ sovereign government. What does America owe Hawai‘i now?