Years1920s
Years1930s
Years1940s
Years1950s
Years1960s
Years1970s
Years1980s
Years1990s
Years2000s
Years2010s
Years2020s
Year2020
Year2021
MonthJanuary
MonthFebruary
MonthMarch
MonthApril
MonthMay
MonthJune
MonthJuly
MonthSeptember
MonthOctober
IssueVol. 148 Issue 009 (October 1 2021)
Cover••Cover Page••
Contents••Contents••
Paid articleLetters
Unpacking the interwar years LESS THAN A LOVE FEST Regarding the interview with John Ghazvinian (“Iran and America,” June 2021), I would like to draw attention to the interwar years of 1919 to...
Paid articleReckoning with Guantánamo
Reckoning with Guantánamo Nearly eight hundred people have passed through the Guantánamo Bay prison camp since the United States opened it in January 2002. Twenty years after 9/11 and more than a...
Paid articleTravesty in Texas
Sitman, Matthew
The Vaccine Mandate On September 9, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would be requiring vaccination for all federal workers and contractors, and for health-care workers...
Paid articleBotching Biden's agenda
Munch, Regina
Botching Biden’s Agenda The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budgetreconciliation bill is now under consideration in Congress. A key piece of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, the Build Back...
Paid articlePersuading anti-vaxxers
Peppard, Michael
Persuading Anti-vaxxers Let’s start with better analogies. How is Obamacare like eating broccoli? Or how is a virtuoso violinist like an unplanned pregnancy? If you’ve taken a philosophy class or...
Paid articleLetter from Italy
Faggioli, Massimo
Hope & Hesitancy Letter from Italy Returning to Italy to see family after a two-year hiatus made clear to me how far apart Europe and the United States have grown. In the summer of 2021,...
Paid articleThe unfinished work of Vatican II
Francis, Pope
‘Always Together’ The unfinished work of Vatican II The following essay is adapted from the pope’s preface to Fraternità—segno dei tempi: il magistero sociale di Papa Francesco by Cardinal...
Paid articleThe 'forever war'
Bacevich, Andrew
The Forever War Continues Biden should rescind the Carter Doctrine. Earlier this year, when President Biden announced his intention “to end this forever war,” he was referring specifically to...
Paid article"After Showers"
Rybicki, Stephen
AFTER SHOWERS (“To see a World in a Grain of Sand,” William Blake) Stephen Rybicki Within that single droplet of rain (a loupe is needed) Hanging precariously for the moment at the very tip...
Paid articleScrapping the color code
Sleeper, Jim
Scrapping the Color Code Jim Sleeper A post-racial America is inevitable. Even as the murder of George Floyd unleashed a deluge of declamations about white supremacy, wokeness, critical race...
Paid articleExtraterrestrial encounters
Ramos, Santiago
First Contact Santiago Ramos What would we have to fear—or learn—from an encounter with extraterrestrials? Three years ago, the Pentagon released a pair of videos featuring diamond- and...
Paid article'Humane' warfare
Klay, Phil
‘Sops to Humanity’ Phil Klay How a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself In 2016, on the eve of a historic peace treaty between Communist guerrillas and the Colombian...
Paid article"The New World"
Carelli, Anthony
THE NEW WORLD Anthony Carelli It’s true: Pilgrim, for you it may be that nothing happens anymore. That life is this going on all around you all the time and nothing else. That this land is...
Paid articleThe other Afghanistan
Daryani, Solmaz
The Other Afghanistan Images from beyond the battlefield SOLMAZ DARYANI Since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan twenty years ago, most of the Western discussion about the country has had to do...
Paid article"Monks"
Chapman, Danielle
MONKS Danielle Chapman I’ve met one named Phoenix Jiránek, ringleted and effusing “contuition” as gaily as a Franciscan in a boat eating honeycakes with an angel. Thus the Lord showed me both...
Paid articleDavid Neuhaus, SJ
Frankovich, Nicholas
Arab Christians in the Holy Land A conversation with David Neuhaus, SJ Nicholas Frankovich Fr. David Neuhaus, SJ, the superior of the Jesuit community in the Holy Land, has taught Scripture at...
Paid articleFollow Your Conscience
PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
Internal Affairs BERNARD G. PRUSAK “Conscience” has a suggestive but also enigmatic etymology. It is “knowledge with”— but with whom? One answer is simply: with ourselves. In conscience, we...
Paid articleThe Gospels
Johnson, Luke Timothy
Too Original LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON Sarah Ruden is a translator of ancient literature with considerable experience and a good reputation. She has translated from the Latin Augustine’s Confessions,...
Paid articleUp to Heaven and Down to Hell
Olmstead, Gracy
Yours, Mine, or Ours GRACY OLMSTEAD “How the world is named and narrated,” writes Dr. Norman Wirzba in his book From Nature to Creation, “is of the greatest theoretical and...
Paid articleAntiquities
Wilson, Benjamin
The Way of the WASP BENJAMIN WILSON At the close of the nineteenth century, a cache of papyri and ostraca began to circulate within the burgeoning, semi-legitimate market for antiquities....
Paid articleThe Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz
Mesmer, Sharon
Silence & Contradiction SHARON MESMER Twenty years ago, I visited the Convento de San Miguel in Úbeda, where Spanish poet San Juan de la Cruz died in 1591. I’d hoped that witnessing the last...
Paid articleThe Brothers Karamazov in 2021
Contino, Paul J.
Love, Actively Reading The Brothers Karamazov in 2021 PAUL J. CONTINO “We’ve become better people since we read The Karamazovs!” Readers spoke those words to Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky...
MonthNovember
Year2022
Year2023
Year2024
Kanda Software, Inc.