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July 10, 2015

v.142 n.12

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Momsplaining

My four-year-old son's questions make me smile. But they can also make me sweat: This is it, Mommy, a chance to set the kid straight or send him down the wrong road.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

July 1, 2015

Columnists

Poverty

Social Justice

Article

Slap Them Sooner

Restoring the order of the sacraments of initiation for children of Catholic parents might help us see adolescent catechesis as a worthy endeavor in its own right.

June 30, 2015

Article

Last Word: Max Baer in Chicago

Chicago, 1932. The night before he would knock Ernie Schaaf unconscious, the second time a fighter would die from one of Max’s blows. We were standing at the bar.

June 29, 2015

Jewish-Christian Relations

Profiles

Social Justice

The Last Word

Article

'Everything Is Connected'

For Francis, climate change is part of a larger ecological crisis—that itself is part of a larger ethical failure involving how we treat the poor and the unborn.

By The Editors

June 29, 2015

Article

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Anne Enright's new novel suggests something simple—family, for good or ill, keeps forming us even when we try to escape it—but her prose constantly surprises.

June 25, 2015

Article

Embryos under the Microscope

In her new book, Jane Maienschein lays out the history of embryonic science—going back to Aristotle—hoping to answer an old question: When does a human life begin?

By Daniel Callahan

June 25, 2015

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Barney Frank: A Life in Politics

Amusing and engaging, Barney Frank's stories (from sixteen terms in Congress) tell what kinds of “inside politicking” informed the presidencies of LBJ through Obama.

By Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

June 25, 2015

Article

An Unlikely Union

Paul Moses's history of Irish-Italian relations in 19th century New York delves into the causes for "race war" between the immigrant groups and how they overcame it.

June 25, 2015

Article

'James Merrill: Life and Art'

Langdon Hammer's biography of poet and writer James Merrill is "wholly definitive" in scope, and threaded throughout with Merrill’s brilliant, always enlivening wit.

By William H. Pritchard

June 25, 2015

Article

Runyon's Way

If you ask me, being a writer is a little like falling in love. No matter how uncomplicated it seems at the start, it is always complicated. The trick is to persist.

By Peter Quinn

June 25, 2015

Book Essay

Books

Article

'San Andreas' & 'Love and Mercy'

Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson is the perfect hero in an epic account of an earthquake that ravages California; Bill Pohlad studies Brian Wilson’s musical perfectionism.

By Rand Richards Cooper

June 25, 2015

Movies

Article

Letters | Contraception, Russia, Amtrak

Readers continue the conversation on the morality of contraception in 2015 and how Europe is handling its two most important crises and America its defunct railways.

By The Editors

June 24, 2015

Barack Obama

Bishops

Contraception mandate

Article

A United Kingdom?

Emerging from the perfect storm of the British general election of 2015, few experts felt able to offer a convincing analysis. Here are some possible explanations.

By Shirley Williams

June 24, 2015

Foreign Affairs

Article

An Interview with Anne Enright

Ireland's fiction laureate talks about sex and death in Ireland; Pope John Paul II's 1979 visit to the country; Kafka and kids; and her new novel, 'The Green Road.'

By Dominic Preziosi

June 11, 2015

Secularism and Modernity

Book Essay

Books

Sexuality

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July 10, 2015

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Momsplaining

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Slap Them Sooner

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Last Word: Max Baer in Chicago

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'Everything Is Connected'

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

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Embryos under the Microscope

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Barney Frank: A Life in Politics

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An Unlikely Union

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'James Merrill: Life and Art'

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Runyon's Way

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'San Andreas' & 'Love and Mercy'

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Letters | Contraception, Russia, Amtrak

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A United Kingdom?

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An Interview with Anne Enright

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