Magazine

January 23, 2015

v.142 n.2

Article

The Future of Baby-Making

Sex for the fun of it, children if and when we choose and of the sort we choose. But would such a world be good for children? And would it be good for sex?

By Gilbert Meilaender

January 12, 2015

U.S. Catholicism

Secularism and Modernity

Bioethics

Sexuality

Theology

Article

'Lawful but Awful'

In defending the use of drones, Obama has classical just-war tradition on his side. But just-war tradition has come to be read in a new and legalistic way.

January 12, 2015

Article

The Catholic Rubens

The Catholic painter Peter Paul Rubens presents a particular challenge to classification—decorative, theatrical, busy, pagan, and only superficially Christian.

January 12, 2015

Article

The People's Republic of Amnesia

Chinese leadership sought to erase memory of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre entirely from the public, and they were highly successful. How? Four things.

January 12, 2015

Article

Born from the Gaze of God

Written before he and seven fellow monks were kidnapped and beheaded in 1996, this personal journal reflects story of Algeria in crisis and courageous spirituality.

By Lawrence S. Cunningham

January 12, 2015

Book Essay

Books

Foreign Affairs

Muslim-Christian Relations

Article

'The Babadook'

Jennifer Kent’s "The Babadook" is a horror film that abjures cheap thrills and builds its terrors securely atop a base of all-too-familiar human pain.

By Rand Richards Cooper

January 12, 2015

Movies

Article

'Grantchester'

"Grantchester," part of PBS’s Masterpiece programming, is soothingly old-fashioned, falling comfortably within the bounds of the cozy mystery genre.

By Celia Wren

January 12, 2015

Television

Article

Letters | Popes, Councils, & Scarcity at the Supermarket

By The Editors

January 8, 2015

Letters

Article

Last Word: Room for Both?

A low voice emerged: “Welcome to my home. Please, sit.” My host and I shook hands, and I took the chair opposite. I remember the details because he was a terrorist.

By Malik Neal

January 8, 2015

Terrorism

The Last Word

War and Peace

Article

Poem | Galileo

Prone before the archbishop, he averted his face from the / severe brocade and chasuble stained with incense and filth...

By Rob Sulewski

January 8, 2015

Poetry

Article

The Children Act

With his newest novel, Ian McEwan has effected a successful return to the moral and social complications of 'Saturday.'

By William H. Pritchard

January 8, 2015

Books

Article

The Limits of Philanthropy

The charity of Americans does not meet the needs of America’s poor, yet the tax code reinforces reliance on giving to make up for an inadequate safety net.

January 8, 2015

Article

Mario Cuomo, Politician

A governor of modest achievements, Mario Cuomo nonetheless left a mark on the nation's broader political debates and offered a forceful rebuttal to Reaganism.

By The Editors

January 6, 2015