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IssueVol. 151 Issue 011 (December 1 2024)
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Paid articleLetters
Zinder and the lessons of history A DESERT COMPASS I read the article “Elegy” by Kathleen Hill (September) with a mix of delight and misplaced nostalgia, as the nostalgia is not mine. My parents...
Paid articleTrump, again
FROM THE EDITORS Not Going Back Before November 5, it was still possible, if a lit­tle naïve, to hope that Donald Trump’s political career would go down in history as a relatively small stain...
Paid articleDon't disengage
Munch, Regina
A Sobering Map The morning after the election, I emailed a friend at 5 a.m., all but tremoring with symptoms of acute Trump Derangement. “For the second time in eight years,” I wrote, “the American...
Paid articleElection street view
Preziosi, Dominic
­­ ­ ­­ ­­­ The Street View In Florida, convicted felons can’t vote. But convicted felon Donald Trump could, thanks to Florida’s deferral to the rules of the state where the verdict was...
Paid articleHow the Democrats lost again
Mazewski, Matt
MATT MAZEWSKI An Epic Embarrassment How the Democrats lost to Trump twice In the wee hours of the morning after Election Day, when it had become apparent that Donald Trump would prevail...
Paid articleJust-war and honorable surrender
Schlabach, Gerald W.
GERALD W. SCHLABACH In Defense of White Flags Just-war theory must acknowledge that surrender is sometimes the only moral option. Earlier this year, Pope Francis took the bait from a Swiss...
Paid articleThe rise of the European far right
Sheehan, James J.
JAMES J. SHEEHAN Democracy and Its Discontents Reflections on Europe in 2024 On Sunday, September 1, the voters in Thuringia and Sax­ony, two states in eastern Germany, elected delegates to...
Paid articleSt. Joseph in Nativity art
Brady, Kathleen
KATHLEEN BRADY Joseph the Protector How Nativity art came to include the whole Holy Family One of the most stirring moments of a Christmas midnight Mass is the sight of the tiny, sacred...
Paid article'Commonweal' and the 'Brooklyn Tablet'
Moses, Paul
Comma Chasers! Paul Moses How an old rivalry between ‘Commonweal’ and the ‘Brooklyn Tablet’ prefigures today’s Catholic media wars For four decades of its century-long history, Common­weal...
Paid articleMarian art
Peppard, Michael
Clothed with the Sun Michael Peppard The Bible & Marian art “All generations shall call me blessed,” she cor­rectly predicted in her famous song of prayer, the Magnificat (Luke...
Paid articleWhy we need cemeteries
Lauritzen, Paul
A Place for Grief Paul Lauritzen Why we still need graveyards I have always enjoyed walking in cemeteries. They can be places of serenity where it is possible to escape the noise of...
Paid articleArt & attention
Malesic, Jonathan
Fix Your Gaze Jonathan Malesic Can art really cure us from digital distraction? On a wet May Saturday while visiting California from Texas, I board the BART train in Berkeley, headed across...
Paid articleArchbishop Roberto González
Skeel, David
Citizenship Without Statehood Archbishop Roberto González Nieves of San Juan discusses Puerto Rico’s ‘unique situation’ David Skeel Roberto González Nieves, OFM, has for twenty-five years...
Paid article'Die Frau ohne Schatten'
Rose, Harry
HARRY ROSE ‘Pro-Humanity’ ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’ It isn’t often that opera-goers have the chance to see Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s 1919 fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne...
Paid article'Prayer'
Dybek, Stuart
POETRY PRAYER Stuart Dybek The tracks of whatever he’s been following end at an abandoned mill where a river exhales from a beaver dam, without pausing to breathe in. He needs to...
Paid articleThe Island by Nicholas Jenkins
Chappel, James
Haunted by Home JAMES CHAPPEL W. H. Auden has long been a name to conjure with. The English-born poet, who spent much of his life in exile, had a long and restless career. Most famous,...
Paid articleBroken Open by Martha Gies
Sayers, Valerie
Experiments in Sainthood VALERIE SAYERS “There was no religion in my family. My parents believed salvation lay in keeping the romance alive in their marriage, and in maintaining a high...
Paid articleEvery Valley by Charles King
Baker, Thomas
A Classic from the Start THOMAS BAKER The history of music is filled with failed premieres, when future masterpieces face uncompre­hending critics and audiences that range from...
Paid articleJudaism Is About Love by Shai Held
Pope, Stephen J.
From Gratitude to Kindness STEPHEN J. POPE Rabbi Shai Held’s newest book, Judaism Is About Love, has all the markings of an instant theolog­ical classic. Held is director of the Hadar...
Paid articleSacred Soldier by Robert F. Keeler
Porter, Philip G.
Sacraments of War PHILIP G. PORTER Confessional writing asks for the reader’s sympathy, and its suc­cess or failure hangs not merely on the writer’s disclosure but also on his offering...
Paid articleFugitive/Refuge by Philip Metres
Czaia, Zach
Memory & Prayer ZACH CZAIA In his 2001 lecture, “The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals,” Edward Said expressed what he saw as a central dilemma for any artist or intellectual trying...
Paid article'Duped'
Reardon, Patrick T.
POETRY DUPED Patrick T. Reardon Lucy Richardson was deceived by the voices, overpowered by the visions, covered over. She let herself be duped. She embraced her deception, locked...
Paid articleLetting go of language
Castner, Brian
Just Do It BRIAN CASTNER How many of us reach for our phones as soon as we wake up? Bleary-eyed, groggy, we go straight to the messages and emails and tweets and videos with...
Paid articleTwo poems by William Virgil Davis
POETRY Two poems by William Virgil Davis NATIVITY If you squint slightly you will be able to see, deep in the donkey’s slitted eye, the whole scene reflected. Used to being pushed off to...
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