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August 11, 2017

v.144 n.13

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The ‘Informed Consumer’ & Other Myths

The world’s richest nation pays the most for its health care—the worst healthcare in the developed world

August 9, 2017

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

Donald Trump shows his signed Executive Order on Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty in May 2017 / CNS photo

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

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