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IssueVol. 153 Issue 010 (November 1 2026)
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Paid articleLetters
Love for liberation theology ENABLING A NEW PERSPECTIVE Liberation theology would never have achieved a global reach without the intelligent work—always attentive to the signs of the...
Paid articleFrom the Editors
FROM THE EDITORS The Bishops vs. the Nativists As much attention as Trump’s mass-deportation program has received, it deserves still more. But the president has an uncanny knack for...
Paid articleRebuilding after this administration
Reilly, Mollie Wilson O’
MOLLIE WILSON O’REILLY ‘The Construction Sites of History’ Trump has smashed a lot of things. What will we build from the ruins? “Nobody builds walls better than me.” I don’t have to tell...
Paid articleHow to read the classics
Celenza, Christopher S.
CHRISTOPHER S. CELENZA Participants, not Prosecutors Treating thinkers of the past as partners in conversation “I enter the ancient courts of ancient men. Received by them lovingly, I...
Paid articleRunning a marathon
Thomas, Mike St.
Several people wearing athletic shoes are running on a paved surface with their shadows cast prominently on the ground. Description generated by AI MIKE ST. THOMAS Glorious...
Paid articleChecks on Trump’s power
Geoghegan, Thomas
THOMAS GEOGHEGAN Checking Trump Some unappreciated obstacles to the president’s power grab Our dysfunctional Constitu­tion has helped save us from Donald Trump. That starts with the...
Paid articleFr. Richard John Neuhaus’s political conversion
Alaigh, Arvin
Christian Radical Arvin Alaigh Fr. Richard John Neuhaus’s tragic political conversion took him from the side of the poor to the feet of the powerful. In 1969, William F. Buckley Jr. stood...
Paid articleRadical activism and eco-sabotage
Tabor, Nick
Burn It All Down Nick Tabor Why the ‘propaganda of the deed’ usually fails In the fall of 1998, a man who called himself Avalon spent several days camping in the wilderness of northwest...
Paid articleIvan Illich’s critique of medicine
Dworkin, Ronald W.
A person with short hair is sitting indoors in a room filled with books and papers, wearing a dark jacket and holding eyeglasses. Description generated by AI The Errant Pilgrim Ronald W....
Paid articleThe origins of capitalism
McCarraher, Eugene
Pulling the Brake Eugene McCarraher How capitalism began—and how it may end Like most of my fellow Americans, I first learned economics in my high-school civics class. In the waning days of...
Paid article‘Sort of a Psalm’
Barbarese, J. T.
SORT OF A PSALM J. T. Barbarese Every now and then, I know what the psalmist meant, fall into a hole in myself and become the watchman who longs for dawn alone in his watchtower with his...
Paid articleA history of sacrifice
Hollerich, Michael
A close-up of a classical painting showing the lower legs of a person seated against a dark wooden background. Description generated by AI There Is Power in the Blood Michael Hollerich How...
Paid articleFree and Indignity by Lea Ypi
Ramos, Santiago
Other Futures, Another Past SANTIAGO RAMOS When the pandemic began, Albanian philosopher Lea Ypi decided to use her time in lockdown to try something new. Instead of the big academic book...
Paid articleAll We Say by Ben Rhodes
Calvert, Drew
Politics and the Limits of Language DREW CALVERT In 2008, Barack Obama’s oppo­nents in the Democratic prima­ries sniffed at his rhetoric. He was talking more about hope than his policy...
Paid articlePicky by Helen Zoe Veit
Howard, Agnes R.
When Kids Ate Like Grownups AGNES R. HOWARD Why do so many Americans assume that kids don’t like to eat most foods? The offspring of the species Homo sapiens are not naturally picky. Nor are...
Paid articleAmerican Odyssey by Patrick J. Deneen
McNamara, Charles
Just Like Us CHARLES MCNAMARA What’s the point of Great Books? There’s never been a straight answer. Leo Strauss argues that they offer an opportunity for “listening to the conversation...
Paid articleWill and Attention by Meghan O’Gieblyn
Shy, Todd
We Are Double TODD SHY After eleven years of sobriety are followed by a year of secret drinking, Meghan O’Gieblyn copies a line from Simone Weil on an index card and tapes it above her desk:...
Paid article‘Deconstruction’
Stalcup, Michael
DECONSTRUCTION Michael Stalcup “You’ve heard that it was said,” you liked to start, reciting worn traditions to the letter— and then you’d take our ways of life apart and...
Paid articleHow to Rule the World by Theo Baker
Chace, William M.
The Real Scandal WILLIAM M. CHACE How to Rule the World tells three stories—one about youth, one about scientific deceit, and one about the seductions of Mammon. The stories rub up against...
Paid articleThe Sword of Damocles Life
Mills, David
The Sword of Damocles Life DAVID MILLS My wife has lived for nine years—about twice as many as expected—since her breast cancer returned in the bones, requiring emergency sur­gery to remove...
Paid article‘Maiwar’
Hart, Kevin
MAIWAR (The Brisbane River, 1966) Kevin Hart Lightning: that crooked path to paradise; Death’s fingers fidgeting In the shadows on the river. * This dark summer, lit by...
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