One of the best-known texts of Vatican II is Gaudium et Spes, the pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world. That unique document, addressed not just to ...

The ghost of modernity—the quest to define what it means to be modern, and what its fundamental principles are—has haunted Western culture for a long time. In his 1991 book We Have Never Been Modern ...

The hideous legacy of modernity can be seen in the ghastliness of the guillotine, the gulag and the gas chamber. The stormtroopers of modernity have trampled much underfoot on their monstrous march ...

A book that I’ve been waiting on for a long time has finally been published: The Rise And Triumph Of The Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, by ...

Muqtedar Khan teaches at the University of Delaware. He is a co-founder of the Delaware Council for Global and Muslim Affairs and is on Twitter. Updated December 6, 2015, 11:09 PM How can we wrap our ...

A growing sense of personal agency fuels resistance to monopolized power. [ IDÉ ] It is often thought that what is currently taking place in Iran, the continuation of what has unfolded there over the ...

President Donald Trump’s political comeback in the 2024 United States presidential election, though not a landslide, is nothing short of phenomenal. He secured victories in all the swing states, ...

(Today being Holy Innocents’ Day, I thought it fitting to share the key points of a talk I gave at the “Child Without Borders” conference organized by the Child Protection Unit last Dec. 5.) In ...