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IssueVol. 153 Issue 003 (March 1 2026)
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Paid articleLetters
ICE in Minneapolis, learning in Lonergan COMPASSION IS NOT A CRIME I am a native of Minneapolis, the dreaded sanctuary city that Trump and the Republicans have invaded with more than three...
Paid articleFrom The Editors
FROM THE EDITORS The Networker Toward the end of a bizarre interview between Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein—in which the registered sex-offender argues, among other idi­ocies, that children...
Paid articleNotre Dame, school and shrine
Young, Cathleen Kaveny and Robin Darling
SHORT TAKES CATHLEEN KAVENY & ROBIN DARLING YOUNG A Shrine and a School What Christian Smith misun­derstands about Notre Dame On his way out of town, the eminent sociologist Christian Smith...
Paid articleThe problem with 401(k)s
Bernhard, Nate
SHORT TAKES NATE BERNHARD The 401(k) Is Tearing Society Apart What if Americans have got retirement all wrong? It’s a financial-planning axiom that’s become virtually sacrosanct: you’re...
Paid articleFed independence
Mazewski, Matt
MATT MAZEWSKI Don’t Leave It to the Experts Why should monetary policy be uniquely beyond the reach of politics? After many months of public­ly disparaging U.S. Federal Reserve chair...
Paid articleICE detention centers
Munch, Regina
­ ­­­ ­­­­ ­­ SHORT TAKES REGINA MUNCH The Cruelty Inside What happens after an ICE disappearance? While violent, military-style operations by Immigration and Customs Enforce­ment...
Paid articleRemembering Bernard P. Prusak
PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
SHORT TAKES BERNARD G. PRUSAK Bernard the Elder Remembering Bernard P. Prusak People have long confused me, Bernard George Prusak, with my father, Bernard Patrick Prusak, who died on January...
Paid articleEuropean Christian democrats
Annett, Anthony
CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION ANTHONY ANNETT Born Out of Catastrophe Christian Democratic parties rebuilt Europe after the devastation of World War II. A renewed Christian Democratic...
Paid articleThree Poems by David Lehman
POETRY Three Poems by David Lehman IF THERE’S TIME If there’s time we’ll have a party with unlimited talk and text. But, as but defeats if, conjecture yields to antithesis. If there’s...
Paid articleParental-rights jurisprudence
Wieboldt, Dennis J. III
ARTICLE Outwitting the Anti-Catholics Dennis J. Wieboldt III The forgotten history of ‘parental rights’ In one of the most highly anticipated cases of last year’s Supreme Court term, a 6-3...
Paid articleLife in a Mexican migrant shelter
Sorrentino, Joseph
PHOTO ESSAY New Ways to Survive At a shelter in Mexico City, migrants who can’t get across the border are starting to settle in. JOSEPH SORRENTINO Tochan, a shelter for migrant men in Mexico...
Paid articleBishop Erik Varden
Bauerschmidt, Frederick Christian
ARTICLE Dust Called to Glory Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt The Christian humanism of Bishop Erik Varden crosses borders of language and culture and spans divisions in the Church. Erik...
Paid article‘Invitation’
Schulman, Grace
POETRY INVITATION Grace Schulman Come walk with me on this jagged concrete where trash bags wait like sinners for confession, workers step in tempi, late for somewhere, and a man scowls...
Paid articleWhy have a large family?
Lucky, Kate
ARTICLE A Home Overflowing Kate Lucky What do large families have in common? On Monday, the Abele family eats pasta. On Tuesday, chicken. Wednesday is beef. Thursday is leftovers. Fri­day...
Paid articleAn interview with John Carr
Schlumpf, Heidi
INTERVIEW Politics Without Partisanship An interview with John Carr HEIDI SCHLUMPF John Carr is the founder of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown...
Paid article‘Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck’
Trela, Bailey
ARTS BAILEY TRELA Glowing Enigmas ‘Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck’ The best works by the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck leave you convinced they might vanish from one...
Paid articleAnger, Fear, Domination by William A. Galston
Cherniss, Joshua L.
BOOKS Anger or Hatred? JOSHUA L. CHERNISS Just over eighty years ago, Rein­hold Niebuhr—the leading Amer­ican Protestant theologian of the day, and a major activist for pro­gressive...
Paid articlePortraits of a Mother by Endō Shūsaku
Wolf, Charles De
BOOKS Endo Shusaku Stories of Faith and Shame CHARLES DE WOLF Japan has an odd relationship with Christianity. First introduced in the south of the country by St. Francis Xavier in the...
Paid articleThe Master of Contradictions by Morten Høi Jensen
an, Costică Brădăţ
BOOKS The Remaking of Thomas Mann COSTICA BRADATAN In the spring of 1929, a philosophical debate was held in the resort town of Davos, Switzerland, that histori­ans now see as a defining...
Paid articleKeats and objectivity
Schwendener, Peter
CRITIC AT LARGE PETER SCHWENDENER Keats and the Real World The great English poet tried to solve the problem of objectivity by destroying the boundaries between himself and his...
Paid articleRequiem in Minneapolis
Hampl, Patricia
LAST WORD Another Requiem in Minneapolis PATRICIA HAMPL The personal misery of a police state is hard for lan­guage to capture. The Russians are better at it than we can pretend to be during...
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