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IssueVol. 151 Issue 005 (May 5 2024)
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Paid articleLetters
the proclivities of the audience. I am also struck by the facile way in which the editorial evades difficult issues. Among these: First, Israel is no more to be equated with Netanyahu than the...
Paid articleFrom the Editors
FROM THE EDITORS Dignity and Gender On April 8, the Vatican Dicastery for the Doc­trine of the Faith released the Declaration Dignitas Infinita on human dignity. Timed to commemorate the...
Paid articleGrocery profiteering
Munch, Regina
­ ­­ ­­ ­ Spoiler Alert “It’s time we put a Kennedy back in the White House,” says Rob­ert F. Kennedy Jr., the seven­ty-year-old nephew of the only Ken­nedy to have served as president. Why...
Paid articleIsrael & Iran
Stern, Alexander
­­ ­ ­­ ­ ­­­ Biden & Bibi During the 2020 presidential race, Joe Biden drew a number of explicit contrasts with his predecessor over Iran. He bemoaned Trump’s withdrawal from the Obama...
Paid articleBallot changes
Mazewski, Matt
MATT MAZEWSKI The End of the Line What a seemingly trivial change to New Jersey’s ballot design says about the future of democracy in America March 29 was a Good Friday indeed in New...
Paid articleLetter from Copenhagen
Jensen, Morten Høi
MORTEN HØI JENSEN A Glaring Contradiction Letter from Copenhagen From certain angles, Copenhagen resembles a toy town, a dollhouse city. As one strolls through its cen­ter, it...
Paid articleApple Vision Pro
Stern, Alexander
ALEXANDER STERN Do We Have To? Apple’s Vision Pro portends a dark future When I described using the new Apple Vision Pro vir­tual-reality headset to my mother, she said, “Maybe they come...
Paid articleThe Incarnation
East, Brad
BRAD EAST Mother of the Unborn God What the Annunciation tells us about the boundaries of life In seven years, the Church will cele­brate the 1,600-year anniversary of the Council of...
Paid articleBuilding Biden’s coalition
Vassallo, Justin H.
Biden’s Missing Pieces Justin H. Vassallo Why the administration has struggled to build a new economic consensus Soul-searching within the Democratic Party has reached levels not seen since...
Paid article‘Token Entry’
Skoyles, John
POETRY TOKEN ENTRY John Skoyles Through the turnstile, uptown or down, past the bench where life sleeps on its rack of layers and litter. The platform’s edge and its...
Paid articleA symposium on women’s ordination
Women and the Priesthood A symposium Jane Varner Malhotra Mary E. Hunt Teresa Delgado Alice McDermott From the very beginning of his papacy, Pope Francis has encour­aged Catholics to...
Paid articleThe struggling suburbs
Tabor, Nick
American Suburbs Need Help Nick Tabor Only politics, not self-scrutiny, can deliver racial equity and economic renewal. For most Americans, “Ferguson, Missouri,” is one of those place...
Paid articleAbortion and sexual caste
Daly, Mary
FROM THE ARCHIVES In March 1970, a pregnant woman filed a lawsuit against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, Texas, challenging the state’s prohibition of abortion. Filing her...
Paid articleTwo poems by William Hathaway
Two poems by William Hathaway AFTERLIFE In the years before we died, we puttered inside our houses while motorcycles and leaf blowers roared and groaned in savage rage and pain outside,...
Paid article‘The Harlem Renaissance’
Thompson, Clifford
CLIFFORD THOMPSON How Harlem Saw Itself ‘The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism’ “For generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being—a...
Paid articleInterview
Metres, Philip
A Literary Homeland An interview with Philip Metres ANTHONY DOMESTICO Philip Metres’s latest book of poetry, Fugitive/Refuge, starts with an invitation: “Welcome. // You’re among family....
Paid article‘The New New Colossus’
Metres, Philip
­ THE NEW NEW COLOSSUS Philip Metres Fed by the brazen gift of drought’s famine, Her tongue tasting language after language Here at our search-burned landfill of garbage, A...
Paid articleGreat Expectations
Cunningham, Vinson
to “John Winthrop making speeches on the ship Arabella”—the old “city on a hill” bit—and wonders whether Obama is “the well-developed melody of which Winthrop was the earliest theme.”  The novel...
Paid articleTrolling Ourselves to Death
Hannan, Jason
Troll in Chief MATT MCMANUS Among the many troubling phenomena social media has introduced or amplified in our politics is the troll. Crawling out of the shallow swamps of 4chan or the...
Paid articleJimmy Breslin
Barry, Dan
Spine of the City DOMINIC PREZIOSI Jimmy Breslin had been a col­umnist for a long time when New York’s notorious Son of Sam shooter contacted him in the summer of 1977. “J. B.,” the...
Paid articleCharlie Hustle
Brien, Keith O’
Headfirst Downslide CARMEN M. NANKO-FERNÁNDEZ In the opening monologue of the Ron Shelton film Bull Durham, baseball groupie Annie Savoy proclaims her allegiance to the “church of...
Paid articleBooks in Brief
­­­ ­­­­­ ­­ BOOKS IN BRIEF Is the work ethic an ideological tool used to blame the poor for their plight or a progressive value that can uplift workers and rebuke the idle rich? In...
Paid articleThe Disintegrating Conscience and the Decline of Modernity
Smith, Stephen D.
Consecrating Error? BERNARD G. PRUSAK Once upon a time, in a land known as Christendom, a man died rather than betray his conscience, which is to say, his “convictions about what it is right...
Paid articleAll Souls
Hamilton, Saskia
Hope or Consolation? WILL BREWBAKER In the final poem of Day by Day, his last book, the American poet Rob­ert Lowell questions his own lyric reliance on personal experience. “All’s...
Paid articleThe Apple in the Dark
Lispector, Clarice
The Other Side of Silence JARED MARCEL POLLEN  In the first half of the twentieth century, literature, like philoso­phy, experienced a breakdown in its trust of language. This signaled,...
Paid article‘Full Moon’
Salter, Mary Jo
FULL MOON Mary Jo Salter The first time, late in the afternoon, we saw the full moon, it was lifting its chin just above the horizon. Against the pearl gray silk of sky it was pale and...
Paid articleNursery tales
Lucky, Katherine
Nursery Tales KATHERINE LUCKY The week before I gave birth to my son, I went to the library and checked out some novels. This was one of the last tasks on my list. I’d stored up diapers and...
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