Berkley Center

Writing for La Civiltà Cattolica, Senior Fellow Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., discusses the ethical, political, and theological dimensions of the debate in the Catholic community about whether Christians should always rely on nonviolent responses to serious injustices or whether armed force is sometimes a legitimate way to right grave wrongs.

Writing a review essay for the New Yorker, Senior Fellow Paul Elie discusses The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church (2023). This new book by Rachel L. Swarns chronicles Georgetown University's participation in enslavement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the recent efforts to uncover and reckon with that history.

In this commentary essay for the Brookings Institution, Senior Research Fellow E.J. Dionne, Jr., and co-author William A. Galston examine how younger voters are likely to impact future elections and American politics going forward, especially those in the white evangelical Christian bloc.

Writing for Orient XXI, Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari analyzes the ongoing controversy around Florence Bergeaud-Blacker's book on the Muslim Brotherhood, identifying it as an unfortunate example of a French-style culture war that has contributed to the polarization of debate on Islamic studies.