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IssueVol. 150 Issue 007 (July 1 2023)
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Paid articleLetters
way until I got to “we should always have the option of communicating with a real person instead.” It left me wondering how often you have tried to communicate with “a real person” while calling the...
Paid articleThe end of affirmative action
FROM THE EDITORS Half Measures In early July, the Supreme Court struck down two efforts to address unfairness in higher education. In decisions that broke along ideological lines, the six...
Paid articleMigrants in the Mediterranean
Munch, Regina
Gun Crazy The word “quixotic” inevitably appears in coverage of Gavin Newsom’s campaign for a Con­stitutional amendment enshrining common-sense gun control. The Dem­ocratic governor of California...
Paid articleHeat waves and wildfires
Doyle, Miles
Heat Check Because of wildfires in Canada, the sky above New York City turned orange in June. Smoke partially eclipsed the sun and caused the worst air-quality levels on record for the city. Most...
Paid articleChild labor isn't over
O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
MOLLIE WILSON O’REILLY Child Labor Isn’t in the Past Children still need protection from big business in the United States. I recently took my family to a favor­ite hometown attraction, the...
Paid articleSilvio Berlusconi's legacy
Faggioli, Massimo
MASSIMO FAGGIOLI End Credits The Berlusconi show is over, but Berlusconi’s political legacy will last More than two thousand guests were in attendance at Milan Cathedral on June 14 for the state...
Paid articleLay parish directors
Metz, Jon
JON METZ A Win-Win-Win? Lay parish directors offer an alternative model for addressing the priest shortage. In 2005, two parishes in the Arch­diocese of Milwaukee, St. James in Mequon and St....
Paid articleA culture of avoidance
Bacevich, Andrew J.
ANDREW J. BACEVICH The Politics of Avoidance On the debt as on security, we prefer to ignore inconvenient facts. According to President Biden, “the American people got what they needed” in the...
Paid articleRemembering Tim Keller
Lucky, Katherine
KATHERINE LUCKY Conviction without Contempt Remembering Tim Keller When I was in college, I was part of a campus minis­try that held weekly Bible studies and worship ser­vices. Occasionally, we...
Paid articleThe civil theology of Robert Bellah
Rose, Matthew
Serious Play Matthew Rose The civil theology of Robert Bellah Robert Bellah was the last major thinker on the American Left to argue that shared religious beliefs are essential for democratic...
Paid article'The Second Perilous Mystery'
Dugan, Lawrence
POETRY THE SECOND PERILOUS MYSTERY Lawrence Dugan “Tunc Jesus ductus est in desertum a Spiritu, ut tentaretur a Diabolo.” Matthew, 4:1 Most of the great painters never saw Palestine, Nor...
Paid articleTwo roads home
Schwendener, Peter
Two Roads Home Peter Schwendener I prefer the one less traveled. It makes a difference. I-94 is the highway that runs almost straight from Chicago to my hometown of Okemos, Michigan. When we go...
Paid articleLearning from an 1878 epidemic
Mills, M. Anthony
No One Is in Control M. Anthony Mills What an 1878 epidemic can teach us about expertise In 1878, a wave of yellow fever swept through the Amer­ican South and spread out through the Mississippi...
Paid article'Fish'
Swann, Brian
POETRY FISH Brian Swann The dragonfly hitches up mica wings, one twitch, settles back to watch and wait while trout subtle as water vanish in overhanging branches to rise again as vortex,...
Paid articleStuck at the Mexican border
Morales, Agus; Torres, Núria López
Waiting on the Threshold Stuck in shelters on the Mexican side of the border, migrants try to navigate the U.S. government’s new app for asylum-seekers. TEXT BY AGUS MORALES PHOTOS BY NÚRIA LÓPEZ...
Paid articleLegion of Mary
Gordon, Mary
Legion of Mary Mary Gordon It is July 4, 1961. In three months, I will be twelve years old. John Kennedy is in the White House, and we Catholics are very, very proud. My mother says that since...
Paid articleApril Bernard
Domestico, Anthony
Something Greater An interview with April Bernard Anthony Domestico At one point in her sixth and latest collection of poetry, The World Behind the World, April Bernard writes that “almost nothing...
Paid articleTwo poems by April Bernard
Two Poems By April Bernard “MY THOUGHTS ARE EAGLES’ FOOD” From a poem by Fulke Greville I seek aid: My grandmother’s gilt clock that plays Greensleeves now fills me with dread; can...
Paid article'Juan de Pareja' and 'Something Beautiful'
Anreus, Alejandro
ALEJANDRO ANREUS Diversity Done Right ‘Juan de Pareja’ and ‘Something Beautiful’ It’s no secret that museums and art galleries are under mounting pres­sure from activists, critics, artists, and...
Paid articleSocialist Weather
Trela, Bailey
Socialist Weather BAILEY TRELA The plot of Jenny Erpenbeck’s latest novel, Kairos, begins with an aria to chance. On a Friday in July 1986, on a bus trun­dling through East Berlin, the eyes of a...
Paid articleGood While It Lasted
Annett, Anthony
Good While It Lasted ANTHONY ANNETT Thomas Robert Malthus was possibly the most pessi­mistic economist of all time. Writing in the early nine­teenth century, he argued that technological advances...
Paid articleBooks in Brief
BOOKS IN BRIEF A tale that opens with the improbable and comes tantalizingly close to the hard-to-believe—though, as the subtitle says, it’s all true. Found footage from the shoot of Marilyn...
Paid articleUses and Abuses
Lynch, Elizabeth M.
Uses and Abuses ELIZABETH M. LYNCH Every so often, I witness a scene in my neighborhood that’s all too common in New York City. A single car is double-parked on a narrow side street in front of a...
Paid articleIs Ethics Like Math?
Farrell, Frank B.
Is Ethics Like Math? FRANK B. FARRELL Philosophers today are typical­ly unknown outside their dis­cipline, but within it, Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, was considered one of the most important...
Paid articleToo Late for Grace?
Domestico, Anthony
Too Late for Grace? ANTHONY DOMESTICO “I feel seen.” Spend time on social media and you’re likely to come across this expression. Often, it’s used in a joking fashion. I’m a thir­ty-eight-year-old...
Paid articleWhat Will Survive of Him
Jensen, Morten Høi
MORTEN HØI JENSEN What Will Survive of Him Remembering Martin Amis (1949–2023) On an equatorial summer day eleven years ago, I spent a few hours with Martin Amis in his home on Strong Place in...
Paid article'The Craic Was Mighty'
Simon, Isabella
‘The Craic Was Mighty’ ISABELLA SIMON The accordion player next to me has handed off his instrument and he’s step dancing on the pub floor, soles smacking heavily on the downbeats. It’s a...
Paid article'Reach Out Your Hands'
Swist, Wally
POETRY REACH OUT YOUR HANDS A translation of Herman Hesse’s “Gib uns deine milde Hand!,” 1919 Wally Swist Reach out your hands to us. Pulled apart too soon from our mother’s clasp, We range in...
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