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Charles Dickens trained many to hate capitalism, but he never understood the difference between envious hatred of wealth and charitable concern for the poor.

Will the post-war liberal world order survive? Developments over the past year have been disheartening. What Isaiah Berlin ...

The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the ...

All three books are infused with her signature style—and filled with candid thoughts about everything from her personal ...

Many Americans today experience a pervasive sense of anger and frustration that has contributed to the rise of far-right politics. Populist leaders have successfully harnessed the discontent of ...

This year, television seems to have finally stopped shielding us from the myriad nighmares unfolding in real time, and the very best among its offerings documented the slow malfunction of reality with ...

In the vast, saturated landscape of global entertainment, the superhero genre has long functioned as a modern mythology, a ...

Faith and politics collided as a U.S.-born pope emerged, Donald Trump returned to power, immigration crackdowns intensified across the U.S. and churches faced violence. At the same time, a Muslim ...

With Trump in power, many parts of the world are swinging to the far right. This is the most pressing challenge we currently face. But what is the situation of the Left in China? And where is the ...