The battle of ideas in our common life begins with confronting nihilism.

Part 3 of 4: Existential despair means hopelessness about human life having meaning and purpose. How does this lead to danger in our common life?

The two ways our common life has become ethically incoherent, and what we can do to begin to make a good and just society

Our dysfunctional politics follow a hollowed-out metaphysics of meaning making.

You need to understand the underlying belief system that underwrites the moral world of the movement that goes by the name "Make America Great Again." Why? Because eventually this underlying belief system will bring down everything you cherish.

Progressivism is in retreat, not just in the United States but around the world. Catholic Social Teaching provides a wellspring to morally thirsty people. Can secular progressives come and drink?

The moral lens on our common life is a way to address our broken politics. Our politics is broken because we are an aimless people, unable to think and talk about meaning and purpose.

How a standard practice in reporting on federal judges increases cynicism and polarization.

On the necessity of hierarchies of virtue in a time of nihilism

Separating words from their meanings is a tactic in the battle to erode the authority of goodness to constrain powerful people from acting badly.