Politics

By Tristan Justice, The Federalist - The board of Harvard unanimously voted to retain the university’s president Claudine Gay despite her public refusal to say that calls for genocide of Jewish students would contradict Harvard’s code of conduct — and subsequent allegations of past plagiarism... “Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing,” the Harvard Corporation announced in a statement on Tuesday... Gay kept her position despite both credible allegations of plagiarism and an abysmal performance ......

By John Zmirak, The Stream - Let’s not fool ourselves. We conservative Christians are fighting for our lives and our freedom in self-defense against richer, more powerful enemies with vastly more institutional resources than we have. What we do have is scruples, which they don’t. In the short term, that’s our handicap... Nor are we nearly as hungry as those who hate us. We seek our Utopia in the next life, not this one, so we don’t crave power as they do.

By Dwight Longenecker, The Stream - As a Catholic Christian, Peter Sonski was aware that his church had a strong tradition of social teaching. That social teaching reflected the values of the gospel onto the contemporary needs of society. The compendium of Catholic social teaching is rooted in the essential God-given value of the family and a concern for both the dignity of the individual and the common good.