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IssueVol. 150 Issue 009 (October 1 2023)
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Paid articleLetters
Fighting featureless modernity, helping young people find Christ WELCOME INTERRUPTIONS Matthew Rose’s essay on Robert Bellah (“Serious Play”) and Peter Schwenden­er’s meditation on...
Paid articleNegotiating prescription drug prices
FROM THE EDITORS Patients Over Profits It’s been a little more than six years since Republican senator John McCain of Arizona cast the dramatic “thumbs-down” vote that doomed his party’s...
Paid articleFlooding in Libya
Simon, Isabella
­ ­­­­­­­­­ Autoworkers Stand Up On November 12, 1936, three weld­ers at a General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, sat down on the job. They were protesting deadly working conditions,...
Paid articleBiden’s age
Preziosi, Dominic
­­­­­ ­­­­­ A Bridge Too Long? In announcing his retirement last month, Utah senator Mitt Romney called on the two likely major-party presidential nominees to step down as well. “I think it...
Paid articleA ‘eucharistic ecclesiology’
Ferrone, Rita
RITA FERRONE What Is ‘Eucharistic Ecclesiology’? An apostolic model for becoming a synodal Church The Roman Catholic–Orthodox Joint International Commis­sion for Theological Dialogue...
Paid articleSolving the housing crisis
Quigley, Fran
For many of us, our nation’s hous­ing crisis is all too evident. If we live in a city, we can see proof that nearly 600,000 Americans expe­rience homelessness every year. If we are...
Paid articleNegotiating the Farm Bill
Munch, Regina
SHORT TAKES REGINA MUNCH Food Fight We need a new kind of Farm Bill. The Farm Bill doesn’t usual­ly get as much press as some other congressional actions. Something like raising the debt...
Paid articleAccessing opioid medication
Gregg, Jessica
JESSICA GREGG Preventable Deaths Opioid regulations block access to lifesaving medicines. I am a physician who specializes in the treatment of addiction, and my patients are dying....
Paid articleWilliam J. Barber II
Dorrien, Gary
ARTICLE Born to Struggle Gary Dorrien William J. Barber II in the Shadow of MLK The Black prophetic tradition remains the touchstone of progressive reli­gion and politics in the United...
Paid articleSynodality’s long history
Blanchard, Shaun
ARTICLE Synodality & Catholic Amnesia Shaun Blanchard The conciliarist tradition gets a new name. Discussions of synodality are about the future—about charting a path forward for...
Paid articleThe theology of Louis Bouyer
Imbelli, Robert P.
ARTICLE From Glory to Glory Robert P. Imbelli Louis Bouyer’s cosmic vision In 1961, I started my one and only year at Saint Joseph’s Dunwoodie, the New York archdiocesan seminary. The...
Paid articleMatthew Desmond
Desmond, Matthew
INTERVIEW Poverty Abolitionist An interview with Matthew Desmond In his book Poverty, By America, sociologist Matthew Des­mond argues that poverty exists because we “wish and will it to,”...
Paid articleThe conceptual art of David Hammons
Thompson, Clifford
ART CLIFFORD THOMPSON What’s the Big Idea? The conceptual art of David Hammons For a baker’s dozen of years begin­ning in the late 1990s, I was the editor of a monthly reference journal called...
Paid articleThe Marriage Question by Clare Carlisle
Reilly, Mollie Wilson O’
BOOKS Double Life MOLLIE WILSON O’REILLY George Eliot wanted to be bur­ied in Westminster Abbey. At her death in 1880, at the age of sixty-one, she had a tower­ing reputation and a dedicated...
Paid articleThe Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
Sayers, Valerie
BOOKS Agony, Almost VALERIE SAYERS Some contemporary Irish novelists are easier to describe than others: Kevin Barry’s a madcap experimentalist, Claire Keegan a subtle and lyrical...
Paid articleAlasdair MacIntyre by Émile Perreau-Saussine
Lipscomb, Benjamin J. B.
BOOKS The Limits of Liberalism BENJAMIN J. B. LIPSCOMB One can’t understand a human action without fitting it into a story. What I am doing right now—writing the opening sentences of this...
Paid articleJustice by Means of Democracy by Danielle Allen
Foley-Keene, Max
A Toolkit, Not a Blueprint MAX FOLEY-KEENE Liberal political philosophy has been under fire from the start. One of the essential facts about this centuries-old tradition is its...
Paid articleTwo poems by Josiah Cox
Two Poems by Josiah Cox SEASONAL All lemon-lime, and caught in the curb, ginkgo wings mind thin spines, brightly pathetic. If they move, they move with whip-wind obligation, then resume...
Paid articleRevolutionary Spring by Christopher Clark
Sheehan, James J.
BOOKS Did It Fail? JAMES J. SHEEHAN In 1871, the great Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt began his lec­tures on “The Age of the French Revolution” by telling his students that the title of...
Paid articleAn Ordinary Life by B. H. Fairchild
Knepper, Steven
BOOKS Welder of Words STEVEN KNEPPER During high school and college, I worked in a small-town hard­ware store. We sold the usual PVC fittings and drywall screws, receptacle covers and...
Paid articleWhat’s in Your Genome? by Laurence A. Moran
Farrell, John W.
BOOKS Spare Parts JOHN W. FARRELL In 1979, a biology professor at the University of California Berke­ley named Thomas Jukes wrote to Francis Crick, the Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the...
Paid articleThe Bible and Poetry by Michael Edwards
Wiman, Christian
BOOKS Fugitive Gleams CHRISTIAN WIMAN Over the years I’ve heard countless ministers, minis­ters-in-training, and even divinity-school professors tell me, often quite cheerfully, that they...
Paid articleMigrant outreach in El Paso
Bednarz, Evan
The Other Side EVAN BEDNARZ “You have picked a bad night to cross,” the man tells the shivering couple in the kitchen, as they watch snow falling outside the window. The other man replies,...
Paid article‘Poulenc’s “Gloria”’
Andrews-Hoke, Magda
POULENC’S ‘GLORIA’ Magda Andrews-Hoke “While writing [the Gloria] I had in mind those Crozzoli frescoes with angels sticking out their tongues, and also some solemn-looking Benedictine monks...
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