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IssueVol. 148 Issue 004 (April 1 2021)
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Paid articleLetters
On leaving Afghanistan ‘RIGHT’ TO DO? I was disheartened to see the subject line “Leaving Afghanistan is the right thing to do” (“An Unwinnable War,” September). It felt like clickbait designed...
Paid articleGoing big
Going Big The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11 does more than bring necessary relief to the millions of people who have suffered...
Paid articleMyanmar's coup
Simon, Isabella
Biden & the Border J ust two months after the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S.-Mexico border is again at the center of national attention. Whether you call it a “surge” or a “crisis,”...
Paid articleStopping the vote
Sitman, Matthew
Stopping the Vote After losing a presidential election, political parties typically engage in a certain amount of reflection over what went wrong: their candidate’s strategy is debated; their...
Paid articleAgainst lying
Ferrone, Rita
Against Lying The Church should be a living witness to the truth. We’re seeing an epidemic of lying in America. In fact, it’s gotten so bad that I wish we would hear more preaching on the...
Paid articleExperiments in self-reliance
Malesic, Jonathan
Experiments in Self-Reliance What Thoreau has to teach Texas Soon after the power went out one morning in mid-February, and the temperature inside my Dallas home dropped below 50 degrees, I...
Paid articleLetter from India
McGowan, Jo
Why the Farmers Are Angry Letter from India More than thirty years ago, I boarded a night train to Delhi with my young children. They were fast asleep in our reserved berths when the...
Paid article"I Confess"
Rybicki, Stephen
I CONFESS Stephen Rybicki Everything I wrote was imaginary Things never happened that way If you ask her She didn’t come along for the ride As I said many times So, she’s told me to leave her...
Paid articleThe end of the Alien Tort Statute?
SJ, Fernando C. Saldivar
A Wicked Impunity Will the Supreme Court gut the Alien Tort Statute? On December 1, 2020, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the consolidated cases of Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe I and...
Paid articleLast men and women
Scialabba, George
Last Men and Women George Scialabba Nietzsche was wrong about liberal democracy. Was he right about the kind of people it might produce? We all know Nietzsche’s parable of the last man. Certain...
Paid article"The promise and peril of artificial intelligence"
Farrell, John W.
Minds Without Brains? John W. Farrell The promise and peril of artificial intelligence In the view of many scientists, Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t living up to the hype of...
Paid articleThe case against meritocracy
McCarraher, Eugene
‘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...
Paid articleMaria Hinojosa
Munch, Regina
An interview with Maria Hinojosa Tell Me Your Story Regina Munch Maria Hinojosa’s nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes reporting for PBS, CNN, and NPR, as well as anchoring...
Paid article"Climate Signals, Sunset Park"
Linstrom, John
CLIMATE SIGNALS, SUNSET PARK John Linstrom after Justin Brice Guariglia’s public art installation, Brooklyn The traffic sign flashes pointillistic messages into the sloping night— two boys...
Paid article'Goya's Graphic Imagination'
Anreus, Alejandro
ALEJANDRO ANREUS Shades of Suffering ‘Goya’s Graphic Imagination’ In 1792, the Spanish painter Francisco Goya (1746–1828) became gravely ill. His convalescence and recovery lasted for more than...
Paid articleChurch, Interrupted
Ivereigh, Austen
A Welcome Interruption AUSTEN IVEREIGH Every new book on the Francis pontificate has the advantage of being more up-to-date than its predecessors, and John Cornwell manages to squeeze in the...
Paid articleNo One Is Talking About This
Daniels, Katie
The Extremely Online Mind KATIE DANIELS In February 2019, the poet Patricia Lockwood gave a lecture at the British Museum. She prefaced it by explaining that she had started keeping a diary of...
Paid articleChicago Católico
Bravo, Milton Javier
Making It Their Own MILTON JAVIER BRAVO Catholics of Latino origin have often been invisible in American society, even to other American Catholics. Spanish-speaking Catholics have resided in...
Paid articleThe career of Mary-Kay Wilmers
Domestico, Anthony
ANTHONY DOMESTICO An Uncommon Tendency The career of Mary-Kay Wilmers In January, Mary-Kay Wilmers announced that she would be stepping down from her position as editor of the London Review of...
Paid article"El Niño"
Scharper, Diane
EL NIÑO Diane Scharper On the night my mother died, El Niño drifting like a mist above Our street with fine silk light billowing Out, beckoning to the winter Darkness. One moment there...
Paid articleRemembering Maradona
Ramos, Santiago
SANTIAGO RAMOS Why They Loved Him Diego Maradona & the hazards of genius Diego Armando Maradona was loved by millions of people. The global outpouring of grief that followed his death in...
Paid article"Besides"
Cooley, Peter
BESIDES Peter Cooley there’s never-heaven always in my hand reminding me my fingers have no grip on Heaven ever, coming through the trees— that kind of fastening the morning holds on...
Paid articleWhat we've been missing
Noval, Roberto J. De La
ROBERTO J. DE LA NOVAL What We’ve Been Missing A new mood pervades every socially distanced conversation now that America’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout is underway. And, I should add, the...
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