Magazine

July 8, 2016

v.143 n.12

Article

The Art of Resistance

The critic and novelist John Berger argues that “the future has been downsized”—restricted to the mercenary parameters of finance capital and digital technocracy.

January 2, 2017

Article

Company

By the time Diego moved in, I was forty and Diego fifty, our marginal existences long established. We ranted about the torture regime he once fled. We danced tangos.

By Valerie Sayers

July 9, 2016

Fiction

Article

Patients before Profits

When it comes to the world’s most deadly diseases, our profit-based pharmaceutical system is a failure. That's why Rachel Kiddell-Monroe wants fundamental change.

June 28, 2016

Article

Will the Church Get Women Deacons?

Clergy who obsess about the dangers of clericalism in women are projecting their own sins and selling short women’s capacity for virtue.

June 27, 2016

Article

'Weiner'

'Weiner' sets out to film Anthony Weiner’s unlikely political comeback, as he sought to put the disgrace behind him with a run for mayor of New York in 2013.

By Rand Richards Cooper

June 24, 2016

Media

Article

Naming the Problem

What makes confronting the past courageous is the possibility that it may compel us to change something in the present.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

June 23, 2016

Article

Poem | Sarah's Song

Promised sand afoot / sun-scuffed and shining behind us, / My song exalts the promise— / I trail horizons

By Judy Little

June 23, 2016

Poetry

Spirituality

President Obama at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Georgetown University, May 2015

Article

'Inequality: What Can Be Done?'

In his new book 'Inequality,' Anthony B. Atkinson argues that we can’t reduce inequality by fiscal policy alone. We must also change how incomes are generated.

June 23, 2016

Article

'The Illuminations'

In 'The Illuminations', Andrew O’Hagan uses his gifts to get beneath the surface of two lives estranged from their own past.

By Edward T. Wheeler

June 23, 2016

Books

War and Peace

Article

Waiting while depressed is like being anywhere but the present

Why Keep Waiting?

By Nathan Paxton

June 23, 2016

Religious Life

Secularism and Modernity

Spirituality

Article

'The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End'

Katie Roiphe’s new book takes up the question of how six writers especially well versed in death and dying dealt with their own impending deaths.

June 23, 2016

Article

How Long Shall the Wicked Exult?

In the aftermath of events like Orlando, it seems as though the God of Jacob does not perceive, and it is no impiety to say so. But that is not the end of the story.

By The Editors

June 21, 2016

Article

Poland Turns Right

Poland's young extreme nationalists represent a revival for which being Catholic and Polish implies also being anti-European, anti-pluralist, and anti-liberal.

By Piotr H. Kosicki

June 21, 2016

Foreign Affairs

War and Peace

Article

The Greatest

Muhammad Ali’s self-love was transferrable. He beat up his opponents and pick-pocketed their confidence but miraculously helped millions see fresh possibilities.

By Gordon Marino

June 11, 2016

Domestic Affairs

Article

'I Want Soul'

Award-winning novelist C. E. Morgan talks about "moral beauty," evil and empathy, and how landscape informs her work, including her latest, "The Sport of Kings."

May 19, 2016

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July 8, 2016

Article

The Art of Resistance

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Company

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Patients before Profits

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Will the Church Get Women Deacons?

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'Weiner'

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Naming the Problem

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Poem | Sarah's Song

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'Inequality: What Can Be Done?'

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'The Illuminations'

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Why Keep Waiting?

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'The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End'

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How Long Shall the Wicked Exult?

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Poland Turns Right

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The Greatest

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'I Want Soul'

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