Elena Thérèse-Rose: Making Catholicism Shareable (Especially on the Web)
The Right - “Secondly, I’d say good advice is to gain familiarity with the saints and to perhaps gain some friends among the saints because often they are the best examples.” 4/11/2021
The Right - “Secondly, I’d say good advice is to gain familiarity with the saints and to perhaps gain some friends among the saints because often they are the best examples.” 4/11/2021Nicholas Kristof Discusses “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope”
The Left - “One of the reasons our anti-poverty efforts in America don’t do better is we start too late. We need to help kids early on.” 2/28/2021
The Left - “One of the reasons our anti-poverty efforts in America don’t do better is we start too late. We need to help kids early on.” 2/28/2021Robert Orlando: Bending Genre in Filmmaking
The Center - “If you look through the films, it’s a propaganda machine, where identity politics is always featured. There’s no space there for just a common universal story, which is the appeal to human frailty or common ground.” 2/26/2021
The Center - “If you look through the films, it’s a propaganda machine, where identity politics is always featured. There’s no space there for just a common universal story, which is the appeal to human frailty or common ground.” 2/26/2021David French Talks “Divided We Fall”
The Right - “Well, the first paragraph basically says it all. It begins with ‘The continued unity of the United States of America cannot be guaranteed.'” 2/17/2021
The Right - “Well, the first paragraph basically says it all. It begins with ‘The continued unity of the United States of America cannot be guaranteed.'” 2/17/2021Wes Jackson: How to Respect One’s Tools
The Left - “I’m Robert Jensen. I’ll be your guide into the restless and relentless mind of Wes Jackson. I first bumped into Wes’ work more than three decades ago, and his ideas have had a profound influence on my thinking about society and ecology.” 2/15/2021
The Left - “I’m Robert Jensen. I’ll be your guide into the restless and relentless mind of Wes Jackson. I first bumped into Wes’ work more than three decades ago, and his ideas have had a profound influence on my thinking about society and ecology.” 2/15/2021Jonathan Church: Getting to the Bottom of the Robin DiAngelo Craze
The Center - “I go through a whole analysis of that and why—statistically speaking—you’re basically making a very broad statement about white people in general based on one observation in one Jeopardy! episode.” 2/1/2021
The Center - “I go through a whole analysis of that and why—statistically speaking—you’re basically making a very broad statement about white people in general based on one observation in one Jeopardy! episode.” 2/1/2021Ray Haynes: Why Republicans Should Support the Popular Vote
The Right - “In the battleground states, since 2000, Republicans have won the popular vote four out of six times. In fact, Donald Trump—in 2020—won the battleground states by over 2.1 million votes.” 1/19/2021
The Right - “In the battleground states, since 2000, Republicans have won the popular vote four out of six times. In fact, Donald Trump—in 2020—won the battleground states by over 2.1 million votes.” 1/19/2021Kevin Williamson: How to Improve the Lot of Those Left Behind
The Right - “And he wrote this very famous novel called Infinite Jest, which he described as a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness. And so, I think in some ways, I’ve written a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness as well.” 1/9/2021
The Right - “And he wrote this very famous novel called Infinite Jest, which he described as a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness. And so, I think in some ways, I’ve written a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness as well.” 1/9/2021Alfie Bown: Where Politics and Gaming Meet
The Left - “I think there’s great potential in video games. In some ways, they are the primary space in which the culture wars are now being fought.” 1/8/2021
The Left - “I think there’s great potential in video games. In some ways, they are the primary space in which the culture wars are now being fought.” 1/8/2021Thomas Ricks: Politics, as Seen from Aristotle to Trump
The Left - “And so I remembered from college: When you’re facing a problem that seems deeply puzzling, go back to fundamentals, go to first principles. So I took Aristotle’s Politics off my shelf, my old college copy, and reread it in the context of the election of Donald Trump.” 1/7/2021
The Left - “And so I remembered from college: When you’re facing a problem that seems deeply puzzling, go back to fundamentals, go to first principles. So I took Aristotle’s Politics off my shelf, my old college copy, and reread it in the context of the election of Donald Trump.” 1/7/2021H. R. McMaster: How He Sees China, and the World
The Center - “And so I think we have to resist the tendency to try to define a new administration’s foreign policy mainly as an opposition to the administration that came before it.” 12/30/2020
The Center - “And so I think we have to resist the tendency to try to define a new administration’s foreign policy mainly as an opposition to the administration that came before it.” 12/30/2020David Gurfein: Advocating on Behalf of Accused American Service Members
The Right - “The UCMJ has some key aspects to it which do not afford military personnel the same degree of presumption of innocence that you’d see in a civilian court.” 12/30/2020
The Right - “The UCMJ has some key aspects to it which do not afford military personnel the same degree of presumption of innocence that you’d see in a civilian court.” 12/30/2020Bill Vitek: In Pursuit of Better Agriculture (and a Better Society)
The Left - “The way we farm and the way we think are connected—that’s our premise.” 12/20/2020
The Left - “The way we farm and the way we think are connected—that’s our premise.” 12/20/2020Rep.-elect Carolyn Bourdeaux: Why She Ran, and Hope for the Future
The Left - “One of the big issues was health care reform; my own parents struggled with the cost of prescription medications, using up all of their discretionary income to pay for my father’s insulin and other medications.” 12/18/2020
The Left - “One of the big issues was health care reform; my own parents struggled with the cost of prescription medications, using up all of their discretionary income to pay for my father’s insulin and other medications.” 12/18/2020Mayor Justin Elicker: Lessons from New Haven, CT
The Left - “It’s clear that so many cities are going through a lot of the same challenges that New Haven is facing right now.” 12/8/2020
The Left - “It’s clear that so many cities are going through a lot of the same challenges that New Haven is facing right now.” 12/8/2020Grant McCracken: Why We Need to Bring Back Honor
The Center - “I studied Elizabethan England as a graduate student. It was a society governed by ideas of honor, and I thought, ‘Wow. Maybe some of those ideas could be returned to usefulness.'” 12/4/2020
The Center - “I studied Elizabethan England as a graduate student. It was a society governed by ideas of honor, and I thought, ‘Wow. Maybe some of those ideas could be returned to usefulness.'” 12/4/2020