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Paid articleLetters
Does India really need fewer farmers? WHY WE NEED FARMERS Daniel K. Finn’s recent article (“Why India Needs Fewer Farmers,” May) exposes many realities about farming today but fails to...
Paid articleThe end of Roe
FROM THE EDITORS The End of Roe Nearly two months after Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was first leaked to the public, the Supreme Court...
Paid articleWest Virginia v. EPA
Simon, Isabella
­ ­­­ ­ An Extraordinary Case On June 30, the Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia v. EPA that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot compel states to regu­late their emissions through...
Paid articleMigrant deaths in Texas
­­­­­ ­­­­­­ COMMENT Texas Migrant Tragedy After the discovery of fifty-three deceased migrants in an overheat­ed truck near San Antonio last month—the highest death toll involving...
Paid articleFalse f lags
O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
SHORT TAKES MOLLIE WILSON O’REILLY False Flags Can a Catholic school really support its LGBTQ students? What does it mean to fly the Pride flag? Can a Catholic institution display a rain­bow...
Paid articleThe crisis in South Sudan
SJ, Bryan P. Galligan
SHORT TAKES BRYAN P. GALLIGAN, SJ War, Drought, Flood The many challenges facing South Sudan Before a leg injury forced him to postpone travel, Pope Francis was scheduled to make an...
Paid articleCloser encounters
Elie, Paul
SHORT TAKES PAUL ELIE Closer Encounters A conference in Rome brings clarity to one of Pope Francis’s more elusive concepts The term “culture of encoun­ter” is used seven times in the...
Paid articleUvalde & the culture of death
Albertson, David
­­ ­ ­­­ ­­­­ ­­ DAVID ALBERTSON American Idols Uvalde & the culture of death In April my family and I left Los Angeles to spend the summer in Berlin. Though the trip was planned a...
Paid articleMy mother's honeymoon
Gordon, Mary
ARTICLE My Mother’s Honeymoon Mary Gordon I call it my mother’s rather than my parents’ honeymoon because he’d already had one, though she didn’t know it. Perhaps he was afraid to tell her,...
Paid articleCatholicism & democracy
‘Natural Enemies’ No More John T. McGreevy How Rome finally embraced democracy Should Catholics promote democracy? The answer did not seem obvious in 1941. Exiled to New York City as...
Paid article"Superposition of Grief"
Moessner, John
POETRY SUPERPOSITION OF GRIEF John Moessner Your father is stuck in the past, an oxbow lake left behind in the curve of time’s waste. Your grief is anchored to his death, a line of...
Paid articleCan sanctions help Ukraine? David Cortright
ARTICLE Can Sanctions Help Save Ukraine? David Cortright The ‘economic weapon’ doesn’t always have the intended effect. Sanctions are one of the most frequently used tools of U.S. foreign...
Paid articleLetters from lockdown
Miles, Jack; Taylor, Mark C.
POETRY ADVICE Wilma Spellman Every old lady should keep a hatchet handy. Lots to chop! Be sure the blade is sharp. It’s not about cherry trees. It’s those gnarly old entanglements that...
Paid articleThe science of belief
Pope, Stephen J.
REVIEW ESSAY Evolution & Revelation Stephen J. Pope Is belief more than just an adaptive strategy? In Why We Believe, the anthropologist Agustín Fuentes has written a clear and concise...
Paid article"Down to the River"
Sayers, Valerie
Down to the River Valerie Sayers A month after Putin invaded Ukraine, a retired Air Force colonel I knew flew her SUV into the Greenglass River. I didn’t see it happen. I was stuck mid-pew,...
Paid article"August, Friday, Grand and Clear"
Hupp, Spencer
POETRY AUGUST, FRIDAY, GRAND AND CLEAR Spencer Hupp Where we’re going isn’t far, Nor is it fair. Ain’t no bigtop with a round Of outhouses and sand, Nor needlenosed sky-height With...
Paid articleAnge Mlinko
Domestico, Anthony
INTERVIEW ‘Blessed Happenstance’ An interview with Ange Mlinko Anthony Domestico In a 2019 piece for the New York Review of Books, the poet-critic Ange Mlinko quotes from Karen Solie’s...
Paid article"Ducks"
Mlinko, Ange
­­ ­­­ ­­­ ‘BLESSED HAPPENSTANCE’ DUCKS Ange Mlinko After the olivine waves of Marina di Torre del Lago, we drive between colonnades of umbrella pines … It is 7:30 p.m. and the...
Paid articleThe films of Asghar Farhadi
Cooper, Rand Richards
FILM RAND RICHARDS COOPER Suspense in Real Life The films of Asghar Farhadi The unsettling start of Asghar Far­hadi’s 2016 film, The Salesman, shows the residents of a Tehran apartment...
Paid articleA World After Liberalism by Matthew Rose
Heer, Jeet
BOOKS Oswald Spengler, 1922 Christianity’s Postliberal Critics JEET HEER In the past few years, several mur­derous racists have shown a strange interest in demarcating their com­plicated...
Paid articleThe Bible in the Early Church
González, Justo L.
BOOKS Work of Human Hands LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON Over a long career, Justo L. González has written pro­lifically and responsibly in the field of historical the­ology, and in his eighty-fourth...
Paid articleCraft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
Tushnet, Eve
BOOKS Who’s It For? EVE TUSHNET A man at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting tells a story woven from clichés, every beat and twist as familiar as the refrain of a popular song. A follower of...
Paid articleAgainst Silence by Frank Bidart
Franz, Paul
BOOKS Escape from History? PAUL FRANZ Reading Against Silence, the eleventh collection by the American poet Frank Bidart, I was more than once put in mind of some lines from “Legend,”...
Paid article"Book of Hours 32"
Harp, Jerry
POETRY BOOK OF HOURS 32 Jerry Harp Digging dandelions summer by summer— I regard them, hundreds by now, thousands, but my work doesn’t do any good, our yard the same as when...
Paid article"Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street"
Thompson, Clifford
ARTS CLIFFORD THOMPSON Keep Looking Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street The first thing you see when you enter the exhibit Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street, at the Bronx Museum of the Arts...
Paid articleSynodal listening
Wilke, Gabriella
LAST WORD Whose Voices Will Be Heard? A dispatch from the listening phase of the synod GABRIELLA WILKE It’s the Sunday after St. Patrick’s Day, and I’m on the wooded campus of Saint...
Paid articleRiver Rider, 2022
Nicolardi, Regina
RIVER RIDER, 2022 Regina Nicolardi Professional sea kayaker Chevaughn Dixon approaches the George Washington Bridge in New York City as he completes the Hudson Valley Challenge, a...
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