Article The ‘Informed Consumer’ & Other Myths The world’s richest nation pays the most for its health care—the worst healthcare in the developed world By Charles R. Morris August 9, 2017 Domestic Affairs Economy Columnists
Article Blockbusting What happens to independent filmmakers such as Sofia Coppola, Patty Jenkins, and Edgar Wright when they embark on genre projects? By Richard Alleva July 27, 2017 Movies
Article The Religious Right & Wrong There’s a legitimate critique to be made of conservative U.S. Catholics, but on that score the Spadaro-Figueroa essay misses the mark By The Editors July 25, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Contraception mandate Abortion
Article Lost Amid Anxiety While most public considerations of terrorism are colored by nefarious political ambitions, this is a vital work on jihadism in the West By Cole Stangler July 13, 2017 Terrorism Middle East Muslim-Christian Relations Foreign Affairs
Article The Most Catholic of Catholic Families Poet Patricia Lockwood considers the perils of having a Catholic priest for a dad By Katie Daniels July 11, 2017 Books Priesthood
Article Pathos, Bathos, and Euthanasia The dangers of not thinking critically about a complicated moral argument By Gilbert Meilaender June 30, 2017 Death and Dying Ethics Bioethics Theology
Article The Ignatian Option Fr. James Martin, SJ, could be the anti-Dreher—and not merely on the topic of sex and sexuality By David Cloutier June 15, 2017 Social Justice Secularism and Modernity Spirituality Books Sexuality
Feature Time to Get Serious about Gun Control Why does this continue to be tolerated? By Gregory Orfalea August 1, 2017 Domestic Affairs
Article If They Could Turn Back Time Mark Lilla turns his attention to reactionary intellectuals and movements that nostalgically turn to the past to impeach the present By Thomas Albert Howard July 31, 2017 Books
Article Fame Is Fickle MacKinlay Kantor and his magnum opus are largely forgotten. Tom Shroder dives the legacy of his grandfather, who was once a big deal By Robert K. Landers July 31, 2017 Books
Article Read Millennials’ Novels, Not Think Pieces Three recent books do more to address the issues young adults face than any “millennial think piece” ever could By Anthony Domestico July 31, 2017 Secularism and Modernity Books
Article What Happened to Chesterton’s Throne? G.K. Chesterton, huge in every sense, was provided with a special chair during a 1930 conference at St. Michael's College in Toronto. Where is this memento now? By Martyn Wendell Jones July 27, 2017 Books The Last Word
Article Slaves Are Catching Our Shrimp The Rohingyas are caught between the alternatives of enslavement, annihilation, and impossible-looking escape over the water. Will we take any action? By Sarah Ruden July 27, 2017 Foreign Affairs
Article Letters | The Expected Inquisition & a Response from Eric Brende Readers consider Eric Brende's article, and the author responds. By The Editors July 27, 2017 Letters
Poetry Two Poems by John Sibley Williams "We stopped being birds for days / after they fell. An unimaginable / sight: skies emptied of planes and / dreams, of our ownerships." By John Sibley Williams July 26, 2017 Poetry
Article An Interview with Francis Spufford There’s more life and variety in a single page of Francis Spufford’s prose than there is in many full-length books By Anthony Domestico June 28, 2017 Books Fiction
