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December 28, 2021

Long Live Liberal Learning

By IHE Fellow Zena Hitz When I re-emerged in 2015 from three years in a monastery, everyone was writing about “the crisis in the humanities”.  Judging […]
December 13, 2021

Marching Forward in Defense of Life

A little over a month before the annual March for Life, the human rights cohort had the great privilege of meeting its president, Jeanne Mancini.
December 10, 2021

The Imago Dei at the Root of Human Rights

Gillian Richards reflects on the first semester of the Masters of Arts in Human Rights.
December 9, 2021

The Moral Presuppositions of Human Rights Discourse

Today everybody claims to be for human rights. People radically disagree, however, about what human rights there are. Can disagreements of this sort be adjudicated?
December 7, 2021

The Light of Ordinary Times

IHE Fellow Lucia A. Silecchia reflects on the light that the Saints leave behind them for the faithful.
December 7, 2021

Thoughts on meeting Dr. Robert George

By Brandon Showalter, graduate student of Catholic University’s M.A. in Human Rights. As final exams loom large and the fall semester draws to a close, the Human Rights Masters degree […]

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