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January 5, 2018

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Rowan Williams argues that the “tragic imagination” is a moral imagination

Liturgies of Loss

By Steven Knepper

January 8, 2018

Books

Theology

Article

Borne Back into the Past

In the crowded field of Fitzgerald scholarship, the scope of David Brown’s book deserves this ambitious title

By Mike St. Thomas

January 4, 2018

Books

Article

Madness to Their Method

Daniel Ellsberg offers a peek inside the secret world of Cold War nuclear strategists

By Andrew J. Bacevich

January 3, 2018

Books

War and Peace

Ethics

Article

A Problem Only Politics Can Solve

Inequality will persist as long as we assume that the technocrats will eventually fix it for us

January 1, 2018

Article

Of Course They Hated Her

Mary McCarthy's writing is always taking the temperature of the room, feeling the social shifts in attention and power, uncovering pettiness and mistaken victories

By B. D. McClay

December 18, 2017

Book Essay

Books

Saint Thomas Aquinas in Prayer, by Sassetta / Alamy

Article

A Burnt-Out Case

The spiritual costs of the way we work

By Jonathan Malesic

December 14, 2017

Spirituality

Theology

Protesting Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel / CNS photo

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Salt in the Wound

Trump’s pointless “recognition of reality” on Jerusalem does nothing to advance the cause of peace or security in the Middle East

By The Editors

December 12, 2017

Article

The Real Dangers of Rescinding DACA

Many Dreamers would be in grave danger if they were deported

October 24, 2017

Article

Holy Tenderness

One of the privileges of working with people who are homeless is that it has given me a chance to follow Jesus’ injunction literally

By Greer Hannan

December 18, 2017

The Last Word

Article

Letters | Dr. King, Donald Justice, Vietnam

Readers respond to Gary Dorrien’s article about Dr. King and comment about a recent poem and the experience of loss during the Vietnam War

By The Editors

December 18, 2017

Letters

Article

Nothing Was Inevitable

We need to rescue Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin from the clichés that have obscured them

By John Lukacs

December 18, 2017

War and Peace

Foreign Affairs

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Poem | January

“Winter is here now, ice / and the hunger of the chickadees / pushed out by squirrels / at the feeder, how the world / is for them”

By Norita Dittberner-Jax

December 18, 2017

Poetry

Article

A Recipe for Autocracy

When Republicans are FBI haters who are sidetracking probes into Russian subversion, the world truly is turned upside down

December 18, 2017

Article

Darren Aronofsky’s film ‘mother!’ depicts how easily the Christian narrative can be redeployed to new and destabilizing uses

Nightmare Vision

November 28, 2017

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January 5, 2018

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Liturgies of Loss

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Borne Back into the Past

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Madness to Their Method

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A Problem Only Politics Can Solve

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Of Course They Hated Her

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A Burnt-Out Case

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Salt in the Wound

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The Real Dangers of Rescinding DACA

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Holy Tenderness

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Letters | Dr. King, Donald Justice, Vietnam

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Nothing Was Inevitable

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Poem | January

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A Recipe for Autocracy

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Nightmare Vision

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