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Driven to Hunger Strikes

Laborers like the hunger-striking taxi drivers should be our central concern, rather than municipalities, corporations, and banks.

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November 22, 2021

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All Lock, No Key

Elizabeth Hardwick believed style and morality were inextricably linked.

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November 21, 2021

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The Varieties of Religious Community Today

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Making Room for Happenstance

David Graeber and David Wengrow explore how our ideas about prehistory are rooted more in modern speculation than in the ancient evidence.

November 19, 2021

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Starving Afghanistan

Afghanistan faces a famine that puts 23 million people at risk of starvation. But the United States refuses to offer aid.

By Regina Munch

November 18, 2021

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Still Supersessionist?

Timothy P. Jackson considers the Shoah not just as a moral or political event, but as a theological one.

By Brad East

November 17, 2021

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‘The Church Must Be Political’

In light of the upcoming USCCB meeting, Bishop John Stowe discusses the role of politics in the Church.

By John Gehring

November 8, 2021

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Going Gray

Reminders of death—and of the dead—needn't be terrifying.

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

November 1, 2021

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Babylon & Boogie Street

Throughout Leonard Cohen’s life, he sought a commitment to others that echoed, however imperfectly, Jesus’s love.

By Marcia Pally

November 11, 2021

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Power in Perpetuity?

China’s Communist Party has succeeded in large part because of its adaptability. But under Xi Jinping, party structures are changing.

By Elizabeth M. Lynch

November 11, 2021

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The Varieties of Religious Community Today

In the face of precariousness and uncertainty, religious orders and lay Catholic communities model how to live in relation with both one other and God.

By The Editors

October 27, 2021

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