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IssueVol. 146 Issue 009 (May 17 2019)
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Paid articleLetters
LETTERS The decline of the West, taxing the rich THE GOSPEL BEYOND THE WEST In his article "A World without the West" (March 22), Andrew Bacevich points to the radical change in the geopolitical...
Paid articleThe Sri Lankan Martyrs
FROM THE EDITORS The Sri Lankan Martyrs On the morning of Easter Sunday, April 21, a man walked into St. Anthony's Shrine in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, and detonated a bomb during Mass,...
Paid articleEvangelization First
Ivereigh, Austen
SHORT TAKES Austen Ivereigh Evangelization First HOW A NEW VACTICAN CONSTITUTION WILL EMBODY NEW PRIORITIES The long-expected new constitution mapping out the future shape of the Vatican...
Paid articleDon't Blame the Patriarchy
Ferrone, Rita
Rita Ferrone Don't Blame the Patriarchy WHAT THE 'WOMEN CHURCH WORLD' RESIGNATIONS REALLY MEAN I've never been much enamored of the idea of a "women's supplement" to L'Osservatore Romano. What...
Paid articleThe Family
Ruden, Sarah
THE FAMILY Bright, upright, They are Like flowers in a jar. Nuzzled by eland at a zoo, Across a fence ("I'm holding you!"), The one child cringes, laughs. The other Dreamily leans against the...
Paid articleWhy I Stayed...and Why I'm Leaving
McGowan, Jo
Jo McGowan Why I Stayed...and Why I'm Leaving My daughter Moy Moy died suddenly and unexpectedly in July 2018. My first Commonweal column—written in 1999 when she was ten years old—was about her....
Paid articleAt Kilometer Zero
Schaefer, Christopher
Christopher Schaefer At Kilometer Zero WITNESSING THE NOTRE-DAME FIRE On Monday, April 15, I was meeting with the former head archivist of the International Herald Tribune in a cafe behind the...
Paid articleNew Moon
Cadnum, Michael
NEW MOON after Brigit Pegeen Kelly I wanted a creature—a bird, perhaps, or an animal that glides even if it cannot fly, an ocelot, or a seal, but I got a planet, maybe because I checked a box...
Paid articleMay Day Saint
Dettloff, Dean
Dean Dettloff May Day Saint THE RADICAL MINISTRY OF FR. THOMAS HAGERTY When Fr. Thomas J. Hagerty arrived at Our Lady of Victory Church in Paris, Texas, in 1901, he quickly grew incensed by the...
Paid articleWhose Laughter, Which Comedy?
Eagleton, Terry
ARTICLE Whose Laughter, Which Comedy? The Politics of Humor Terry Eagleton The governing elites of ancient and medieval Europe were not greatly hospitable to humor. From the earliest times,...
Paid articleUs & The Brink
Cooper, Rand Richards
FILM Rand Richards Cooper Creepy and Creepier 'US' & 'THE BRINK' Jordan Peele's 2017 smash debut, Get Out, was the rare film that manages to be absurd, hilarious, and deadly serious all at once....
Paid articleSecularism and Cosmopolitanism
Griffiths, Paul J.
BOOKS Paul J. Griffiths No Neutral Ground Secularism and Cosmopolitanism Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics Etienne Balibar Columbia University Press, $28, 288 pp. There are...
Paid articleNobody's Looking at You
Baumann, Paul
Paul Baumann Relentless Interrogator Nobody's Looking at You Essays Janet Malcolm Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 304 pp. Janet Malcolm, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New...
Paid articleThe Source of Self-Regard
Sayers, Valerie
Valerie Sayers From Data to Wisdom The Source of Self-Regard Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations Toni Morrison Knopf, $28.95, 368 pp. Toni Morrison is a towering figure in contemporary...
Paid articleThe Splintering of the American Mind
Lakeland, Paul
Paul Lakeland College as Department Store The Splintering of the American Mind Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today's College Campuses William Egginton Bloomsbury, $28, 272...
Paid articleHate Is An Echo
Liebler, M. L.
HATE IS AN ECHO The politics of hate is a hollow echo Inside an empty seed of imagination. Stunted ancient bitterness descending Twisting and banging At the backdoor of death. A midnight branch of...
Paid articleSimon Leys
Haggerty, Nicholas
Nicholas Haggerty The Generalist Simon Leys Navigator between Worlds Philippe Paquet Translated by Julie Rose La Trobe University Press, $59.99, 692 pp. In the second half of the twentieth...
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Perchik, Simon
There are no splinters though this door is still making room for the sea to come inside—even without water these walls become sails, their corners opening as if this pillow is reaching out...
Paid articlereligion booknotes
Johnson, Luke Timothy
Religion Booknotes Luke Timothy Johnson John Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators translated and edited by Bryan A. Stewart and Michael A. Thomas Eerdmans, $65.00, 684...
Paid articleThe Mildred Mysteries
Volkmer, Jon
LAST WORD The Mildred Mysteries Jon Volkmer 've kept my father's rosary in the top drawer of my desk since his funeral sixteen years ago. I've taken it out, held it, stared at the tiny wooden...
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