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IssueVol. 149 Issue 002 (February 1 2022)
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Paid articleLetters
Pragmatism, Ukraine, and the meaning of sex PRAGMATISM & DEMOCRACY George Scialabba’s review of the new collection of Richard Rorty’s lectures (“Should Philosophy Retire?,” Decem­ber) seems to me...
Paid articleNow what?
FROM THE EDITORS Now What? Democrats ended 2021 on a down note with the apparent collapse of the Build Back Better Act. 2022 hasn’t started any better, with two voting-rights bills defeated...
Paid articleSchools & surges
Preziosi, Dominic
The Bronx Fire By all accounts Twin Parks North West in the Bronx was an unusu­ally vibrant community, a small village within an affordable-housing high rise, home to a tightly knit Gam­bian...
Paid articleLost in translation
Oleynick, Griffin
Lost in Translation Pope Francis’s January “state of the world” address to foreign dip­lomats was a powerful, if mostly unsurprising speech, enumerating his global political priorities for the...
Paid articleLetter from Lebanon
Yaghi, Zeead
ZEEAD YAGHI The Toll of Sectarian Politics Letter from Lebanon During the past two years Leba­non has gone through a series of crises that have pushed its residents to the brink of ruin. A...
Paid articleHow the Irish changed penance
Rodden, John
JOHN RODDEN How the Irish Changed Penance The history of a sacrament Most Catholics are probably unaware that what we today call the sacrament of Rec­onciliation existed in a com­pletely...
Paid articleThe perils of the Metaverse
Ramos, Santiago
SANTIAGO RAMOS A Supplement, Not a Substitute The thrill and peril of the Metaverse Here is my pitch for a futuris­tic sci-fi thriller. In the near future—always, the most ter­rifying hour—the...
Paid article"Beach Haven, New Jersey"
Andrews-Hoke, Magda
POETRY BEACH HAVEN, NEW JERSEY Magda Andrews-Hoke I’m afraid of who it is that made these things. The surf repeatedly blasting the sand to waste, the weird slide of...
Paid articleFrom monk to scholar
Johnson, Luke Timothy
Opening to the World Luke Timothy Johnson My journey from young monk to mature scholar Late in the summer of 1963, I entered the novitiate at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Covington, Louisiana, thinking...
Paid articleImages of the invisible God
Reimer, Jeff
Images of the Invisible God Jeff Reimer How icons avoid idolatry What happens when we look at an image of a person’s face—a painting, a drawing, a photograph? What the mind registers at first...
Paid article"The Man" and "The Mare"
Swann, Brian
Two Poems by Brian Swann THE MAN Moon’s up, flinging bits of herself out into the void where stars sting, flint, fer-de-lance, bloom like neurons, neuroses, till dawn spills over a line of...
Paid articleFaith in a secular time
Kloppenberg, James T.
Signs of the Sacred James T. Kloppenberg Hans Joas on faith in a secular time American democracy is in trouble. The voices that command the most atten­tion are those at the ends of the...
Paid article"Rodin's 'Adam'"
Moessner, John
RODIN’S ‘ADAM’ …the tragic pleasure of admiration. Rodin John Moessner He emerges from that stone womb stumbling, yet still, with rocky sleep in his eyes, a lingering curl in the toes....
Paid articleMeghan Sullivan & Paul Blaschko
Oleynick, Griffin
Asking the Right Questions An interview with Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko Since 2015, philosophers Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have taught “God and the Good Life,” the most popular...
Paid article'The Power of the Dog'
Cooper, Rand Richards
RAND RICHARDS COOPER Gorgeous to a Fault ‘The Power of the Dog’ In 1996, reviewing Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady, critic David Ansen called it “the kind of failure only a very gifted...
Paid articleThe Deep Places by Ross Douthat
Barndt, Susan McWilliams
The Evidence of Bugs Unseen SUSAN MCWILLIAMS BARNDT Ixodes scapularis, the common deer tick, is the size of the head of a pin. A million angels might be able to dance upon it, yet it is likely too...
Paid articleGenerations by Lucille Clifton
Thompson, Clifford
'We Fooled Em' CLIFFORD THOMPSON A passage in Walt Whitman’s seminal 1855 work, Leaves of Grass, reads, “And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not / something else, / And the...
Paid articleRadical Sufficiency by Christine Firer Hinze
Mazewski, Matt
Radicalism Without Revolution MATT MAZEWSKI In 1913 and 1914, the now-defunct magazine Everybody’s hosted a run­ning debate between the econo­mist-priest Msgr. John A. Ryan, a professor of...
Paid articleBooks in Brief
BOOKS IN BRIEF A girl who stands alone at the shore appears eight times in Valerie Martinez’s book-length poem about climate change, Count: “During the day, at night / when looking straight on in...
Paid articleThe Politics of Persecution by Mitri Raheb
Neuhaus, David
Fear Is a Bad Teacher DAVID NEUHAUS In The Politics of Persecution, Mitri Raheb, a Lutheran Pal­estinian pastor from Bethlehem, makes clear the aim of his thought-provoking book: “Evangelical...
Paid articleAtlas of AI by Kate Crawford
Slattery, John
BOOKS Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent JOHN SLATTERY The study of technological ethics can be divided into two distinct parts: the ethics of applied tech­nology and the study of tech­nology...
Paid article"Vow"
Calvert, Drew
POETRY VOW Drew Calvert Fanny Howe calls loneliness a vow never made but kept. Yes. That makes sense to me, a postulant without a post. Guardian angels, sovereign ghosts, music, gin...
Paid articleThe truth, finally
Anonymous
LAST WORD The Truth, Finally ANONYMOUS “How do you feel about being a mother?” the woman from social services asked, standing with me in between my sons’ beds. She had called a few minutes...
Paid article"Wind Chill"
Barker, Kristina
WIND CHILL I was finishing my time in Mobridge, South Dakota, photographing a recently shuttered nursing home. I’d spent time with families sharing stories about how difficult it was to travel far...
Paid article"Standing by the Shutters"
Piero, W. S. Di
POETRY STANDING BY THE SHUTTERS W. S. Di Piero Still nobody at the door. Junk mail and spam. Robocalls from the Orient. I’ll deep fry a turkey and eat it all myself, share nothing with...
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