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The Storm Cloud of the Twenty-First Century Eugene McCarraher John Ruskin, Pope Francis, and global warming The violence present in our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in the...

The case against meritocracy (April 2021)

‘A Providentialism Without God’ Eugene McCarraher The case against meritocracy “Democracy can be no more than an aspiration,” muses “Michael Young,” the narrator of Michael Young’s dystopian...

Speaking Love to Power (February 2020)

ARTICLE Speaking Love to Power Eugene McCarraher Theodore Roszak’s visionary commonwealth “T heodore Roszak, ’60s Expert, Dies at 77,” read the headline of a New York Times obituary...

'Turn the Page' (July 2019)

ARTICLES 'Turn the Page' The Romantic Socialism of William Morris Eugene McCarraher It was the summer of 1889, and William Morris was reclining in the shade of an elm tree somewhere in...

Undemocratic by Design (October 2018)

BOOK ESSAY Undemocratic by Design The Mystifications of Neoliberalism Eugene McCarraher Globalists The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Quinn Slobodian Harvard University Press,...

The Art of Resistance (July 2016)

ARTICLES The Art of Resistance John Berger, Critic & Prophet Eugene McCarraher Writing in the aftermath of the fall of communism, John Berger, the world's preeminent Marxist (patience, dear...

Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste (December 2014)

BOOKS Eugene McCarraher Capital Offenders Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown Philip Mirowski Verso, $29.95, 467 pp. Surveying the American...

Morbid Symptoms (November 2012)

ARTICLES Morbid Symptoms The Catholic Right's False Nostalgia Eugene McCarraher "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum a...

"Radical, OP" (October 2010)

ARTICLE Radical, OP Herbert McCabe's Revolutionary Faith Eugene McCarraher Che Guevara once wrote that the true revolutionary is guided by great feel' ings of love. For some—especially those...

Not Bold Enough (August 2009)

Eugene McCarraher Not Bold Enough WHY DID BENEDICT PULL HIS PUNCHES? This summer witnessed the publication of Caritas in veritate, Pope Benedict XVI’s long-awaited encyclical on economics....

The Earthly City: Saving democracy from capitalism (April 2009)

“What has Washington to do with Jerusalem?” After eight years of faith-based hubris and folly under George W. Bush, “far too much” would be one answer to Charles Mathewes’s opening question in A...

American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips (May 2006)

Eugene McCarraher Empire Falls American Theocracy The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century Kevin Phillips V~king, $26.95,428 pp....

The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004 edited by Philip Zaleski (November 2004)

PASSION & OBEDIENCE Eugene McCarraher In think of myself as religious but not spiritual. Partial to the sensuous, communal, and cerebral forms of ritual and text, I've always considered...

Contours of Descent by Robert Pollin (July 2004)

VOODOO ECONOMICS The Soul of Capitalism Opening Paths to a Moral Economy It alarm Greider After the New Economy Dori; tlerrlcoorl The Divine Right of Capital Dethroning the Lconomic...

The New Anti-Catholicism by Philip Jenkins Anti-Catholicism in America by Mark S Massa (September 2003)

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE The New Anti-Catholicism The Last Acceptable Prejudice Philip Jenkins Oxford University Press, $27, 258 pp. Anti-Catholicism in America The Last Acceptable Prejudice...

High and Nighty by Keith Bradsher (March 2003)

SIZE NATTERS High and Nighty SUVs: The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way Keith Bradsher Public Affairs. Btvkf, $28.468 pp. Eugene NcCarraher nf Dante were to visit...

'THE LONG LONELINESS' AT 50 Was Dorothy Day a 'material girl'? (May 2002)

THE LONG LONELINESS9 AT 5O Dorothy Day's enduring autobiography Eugene NcCarraher Dorothy Day was a material girl." My seminar students laughed when I said that in the middle of a discussion of The...

Gilligan Unbound by Paul A Cantor (February 2002)

GLOBAL MISSION Gilligan Unbound Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization Paul A. Cantor Rowman and Littlefield. $27.95, 255 pp. Eugene McCarraher Like so many other intellectual confections...

Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics (October 2001)

GETTING BEYOND CHOICE Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics Styles of Engagement among Grass-roots Activists Stephen Hart University of chicago Press, $17, 292 pp. Eugene...

Theology at the barricades (July 2001)

BOOK ESSAY Theology at the barricades Eugene McCarraher Catholic scholars have taken the dynamite of the church, have wrapped it up in nice phraseology, placed it in an hermetic...

YOU CATHOLIC? HERE'S HOW TO VOTE (October 2000)

of large corporations. Moving beyond the "regulatory" ap- Eugene McCarraher proach to...

Christian Critics (October 2000)

pensive whims, covered the costs of her failed moneymaking schemes, indulged her in luxury lingerie and vacations, ap- RELIGION & POLITICS, AGAIN proved her appetite for boy and girl...

Don't Think, Smile! (October 1999)

LEFT OUTSIDE Don't Think, Smile! Notes from a Decade of Denial Ellen Willis Eugene NcCarraher Although Ellen Willis's new collection of essays on the passing decade covers a range of cultural...

The Corrosion of Character (February 1999)

CRAFTSMAN TO BUTTON PUSHER The Corrosion of Character The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism Richard Setmett W. W. Norton, $23.95, 176 pp. Eugene HcCarraher orkers no...

The Conquest of Cool (February 1998)

virtual reality of the Tube, but the Tube conveys, mostly, crap; "the medium is the message"; but what is the message? McLuhan could probably not have been, and surely was not, a...

Smile, When You Say 'LAITY' (September 1997)

SMILE, WHEN YOU SAY 'LAITY' The hidden triumph of the consumer ethos Eugene McCarraher already run the church." Reacting to Charles WMorris's question on women's ordination, Joan Peters of Saint...

The Electronic Republic by Lawrence Grossman What Comes Next by James P Pinkerton (June 1996)

ELITIST CYBERBABBLE The Electronic Republic Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age Lawrence Grossman Viking, $2435,290 pp. What Comes Next The End oi Big Government and the New Paradigm...

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