Magazine

February 24, 2017

v.144 n.4

Members of Canada's Royal 22e Regiment in Audience with Pope Pius XII, 1944 / Wikimedia

Article

Humanity’s Conscience?

What standards should we use to judge figures of the past? No one evokes this question more acutely than Pope Pius XII. Two books assess his actions in World War II.

By John Connelly

February 13, 2017

Book Essay

War and Peace

Donald Trump in the Oval Office / Wikimedia

Article

This Isn't Normal

The weeks since Donald Trump’s inauguration have offered a mix of extremism and ineptitude that has vindicated the darkest suspicions about how he would govern.

By The Editors

February 7, 2017

Article

Out of Luck

To support repeal of Obamacare without replacement is to support taking health care away from tens of million Americans, knowing they'll be left high and dry.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

February 14, 2017

Article

Life Amid Loss

I've been visiting sisters’ homes across Britain and Ireland, seeking to collaborate with them in reflecting on suffering and its relationship to love.

By Karen Kilby

February 13, 2017

Article

Letters | 'Known Unknowns' & 'Election 2016: A Postmortem'

Readers respond to James J. Sheehan’s review of 'Blood in the Water' and our nation's greatest crime, and our post-election postmortem.

By The Editors

February 9, 2017

Letters

Article

Poem | The 'Strengthless Arms' of the Baggage Handlers

"Beautiful weather, a wonderful zoo! / You imagine a sun-splashed elephant / in its glaring enclosure—San Diego."

By Don Barkin

February 9, 2017

Poetry

Article

Poem | 'Houses'

"Given gravity, it is only right / that the houses hunched along the road / seem substantive and unconcerned."

By Don Barkin

February 9, 2017

Poetry

Article

A Crisis for Crisis-Pregnancy Centers

Pregnancy centers now face a serious threat, one that distorts the First Amendment, menaces religious liberty, and broadly imperils free speech rights.

February 9, 2017

Article

'The Founder' & 'Hidden Figures'

Watching Michael Keaton in “The Founder,” you might not like him, but you “get” him. Meanwhile, the remarkable women depicted in “Hidden Figures” deserve better.

By Richard Alleva

February 9, 2017

Movies

Article

Last Word: Who Saved Whom?

Did the woman jump into my arms to save herself, or to save me?

By Wayne Sheridan

February 8, 2017

The Last Word

Article

‘Collected Poems’

Marie Ponsot’s 'Collected Poems' offers an astonishingly high proportion of good to bad—a sure sign, I think, of her greatness.

By Anthony Domestico

February 8, 2017

Books

Poetry

Article

Big Stick, Short Memory

Two new books on U.S. foreign policy could not foresee Trump in charge, yet they present sobering prospects to the dealmaker-in-chief.

By Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

February 8, 2017

Article

'Capital without Borders'

The opaque means by which the wealthy preserve their luxury at our expense is the subject of Brooke Harrington’s new book. What do wealth managers do exactly?

By Sam Adler-Bell

February 8, 2017

Books

Economy