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In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, many folks who dared to express views of him and his work outside the mainstream lost their jobs, professional standing and State Department visas as they were fired or otherwise disciplined by employers or bureaucrats who concluded that anti-Kirk views could harm the employers' businesses or were ...Read more

It's fashionable to call the current federal government shutdown a "crisis," to focus on the missed paychecks, delayed services and bureaucratic disarray. But what if this standoff -- this uncomfortable pause in government business -- is exactly what the country needs right now? What if the dysfunction is finally forcing Washington, and all of ...Read more

In 1980, America's publicly held debt reached more than $712 billion (about $2.8 trillion in 2025 dollars), or roughly 25% of annual U.S. GDP. Today, that figure is a little over $30 trillion, or around 100% of GDP. And as the federal debt grew 42 times larger over that span, the economy grew only tenfold. You can't expand the numerator four ...Read more

For the past 20 years, the University of Notre Dame has sponsored a yearlong dialogue on a given theme, with featured speakers, panels and other public events at which the year's theme is discussed and debated.

This year's theme is "Cultivating Hope." Two weeks ago, Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., ...Read more