Michael Brendan Dougherty

Take heed.

Even progressive Catholics understand this.

The U.K. debate about medically assisted suicide involves a certain denial of the true state of humanity.

Erika Kirk and Donald Trump channel the American right’s spirit.

We need to find the courage to speak as free men.

Yet we know how to prevent murders like the one in Charlotte; it doesn’t involve another national conversation.

At every age, I’ve tried to squeeze more and more out of Augusts that somehow seem to pass in a few flashes rather than languid weeks.

Instead of diverting German resources to the south and shortening the war, it exhausted the Allies and extended it.

The American right is stalked by the suspicion that Trumpism is a phase.

Not even to end the war.

What would it mean as a policy for Irish people to expect that the bottom 10 percent of jobs be taken up by immigrants?

This is baseball practice for my kids, but something else for me.

It’s not just red tape holding back government-funded exploration and innovation. It’s a new cultural pessimism about the future.

But I think France should continue to exist.

A global free market doesn’t care if America remains the preeminent nation on earth, or if it is reduced to one giant soybean farm to feed a Chinese state.

American mass culture has rapidly been replaced by giant buzzing colonies of internet influencers.

Any just settlement is going to involve a reckoning with the rights and political interests of Ukrainians who haven’t had a voice in Kyiv or the West for years.

Ireland, unlike its Anglophone peers, is largely untouched by the conservative backlash to progressive overreach.

Skepticism of American foreign adventurism is native to the American right.

We can only live vicariously through our children’s experience of these long, hot, languid days.

People fantasizing about redeeming their own and the nation’s reputations in the Iranian theater should slow down.

Remembering a way of life we’ll never get back

Trump is working within the bounds of public opinion.

Hillary Clinton inadvertently reveals a truth.

It concerns a tiny minority of Catholics, and yet, in some ways, it is symbolic of the biggest debate in the church.

Sometimes, our public figures seem aware that they are engaged in an all-sermon, no-sacrifice politics.

Lessons from modern political history on the importance of protecting an image of competence.

It may seem like a deal is ready to be made. But making it stick is another matter.

Americans, knowing in their bones that democracy and republican government can be imperiled by global affinities, are naturally pulling away in disgust.

Maybe the talks with Mexico and Canada amount to nothing. Or maybe the threat moves them onto Trump’s breakneck timetable.