Magazine

November 11, 2016

v.143 n.18

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Violence, Videos, and Statistics

The powerful video images on which we fixate cannot answer the complex statistical questions needed to resolve the issue of police bias against black people.

By Gary Gutting

September 13, 2016

Race

Social Justice

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'American Jesuits & the World'

John T. McGreevy's book explains how deep and pervasive American anti-Jesuit sentiments were, why they were so extreme, and how they were overcome.

November 9, 2016

Article

'The Terror Years'

In "The Terror Years," Lawrence Wright offers a view of the War on Terror through the lens of the individuals and societies that have taken part in it.

By Jonah Shepp

November 8, 2016

Middle East

Barack Obama

Books

Article

Beneath the neuter austerity of Cormac McCarthy’s prose, a keen moral imagination is at work

Children of God?

November 3, 2016

Article

Seeing Is Believing

As a Catholic, O’Connor believed that the physical, perceptible, photo-graphable world is always pointing toward a larger and more enduring metaphysical reality.

November 2, 2016

Article

Desired Things

Twice on this trip home to Virginia, Douglas had drifted toward a wrong exit and now she had the wheel. She suspected he was more hung over than he admitted.

By Alice McDermott

October 27, 2016

Fiction

Article

Plain Can Be Powerful

Sixty-five works on display in a recent exhibit reveal the Le Nains’ excellence in religious work and genre scenes, mythological allegory, and portraits.

By Leo J. O'Donovan

October 27, 2016

Art

Religious Life

Article

'The Birth of a Nation'

Like Joan of Arc, Nat Turner was a mystic whose visions led him to take up arms. Unlike Joan’s visions, his were blood-drenched and race-specific.

By Richard Alleva

October 27, 2016

Movies

Race

Article

Misdirected Investment

High-end residential towers in New York, Singapore, London, and elsewhere are just a particularly egregious example of the warping of the modern investment economy.

October 26, 2016

Article

Making Religious Education Work

The number of families with children in religious education was growing at a healthy rate. The problem: many weren't engaged in any other aspect of parish life.

By Fr. Nonomen

October 25, 2016

U.S. Catholicism

Columnists

Article

Letters | Special Revelation, Ad Orientem

By The Editors

October 25, 2016

Letters

Article

Poem | Looking Out, Anytime

"I draw the praise-lines / of a letter / alpha or omega / to honor light & air"

By Marie Ponsot

October 24, 2016

Poetry

Article

Two Poems

In an oval world where / points of view are eye-shaped, / out of a round world, helpless, / where even the hamburger has/ an accredited helper, dirt cheap...

By Marie Ponsot

October 24, 2016

Poetry

Article

Last Word: The Resurrection Will Be a Remix

Even when produced with the most meticulous scholarship, our dictionaries ought to remind us that words exceed our best efforts at definition and classification.

By Charles McNamara

October 19, 2016

Theology

Article

'Love for Sale: Pop Music in America'

Does pop music matter really? Is it “only rock and roll” or “all we have”? 'Love for Sale' misses out on a key opportunity to explore the deep questions.

By James Mcfetridge Wilson

October 19, 2016

Books

Media

Music

Article

'American Prophets'

'American Prophets' is a true exercise in hagiography in every sense of the word, detailing the lives of modern saints while extolling their extraordinary vision.

October 19, 2016

Article

'Modernity and Its Discontents'

In 'Modernity and Its Discontents,' Steven Smith writes clearly about how we can think about modernity without resorting to endless negation.

By Alan Wolfe

October 19, 2016

Books

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Politics As Usual

What the Catholic Church teaches about civic and political duties is an invaluable resource in the battle against those who seek to delegitimize liberal democracy.

By The Editors

October 19, 2016

Article

'All Things Made New'

Diarmid MacCulloch wants us to understand the religious beliefs of centuries ago in their own terms, however strange they may seem to modern secular sensibilities.

By William Storrar

October 19, 2016

Theology

Books

Article

Why Is Turkey Targeting Hizmet?

How did President Erdoğan come to accuse the reclusive Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the United States, of treason and masterminding last July's coup in Turkey?

By Thomas Michel

October 6, 2016

Foreign Affairs

War and Peace

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