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October 19, 2018

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A State without Suicide

T. G. Masaryk fathered a Czech version of national socialism: a tolerant democratic party with respect for human rights.

By John Connelly

October 16, 2018

Foreign Affairs

Feature

Peace on Murder Mile

Rev. Bill Shaw, a Presbyterian minister in a Catholic neighborhood of Belfast, is working to soothe generations of sectarian strife.

By Philip Metres

October 14, 2018

Foreign Affairs

Article

Citizen Braschi, Occupation Pontiff

A new book examines the origins of the pope-centered church, in which we assume that the bishop of Rome writes encyclicals, convokes councils, and declares saints

By William L. Portier

October 13, 2018

Article

Embodied Arguments

In a new collection, Cathleen Kaveny provides practical ways that the legal tradition can serve as a source of insight for Christian ethicists

By Mark R. Schwehn

October 8, 2018

Article

Off Target

As Venezuela's economic collapse turns into a humanitarian catastrophe, U.S. economic sanctions are inhibiting growth and recovery.

October 7, 2018

Foreign Affairs

Article

Everyone a Cosmos

Every one of us contains an infinity of memories, hopes, ideas. How to imagine the incalculable loss of so many refugees’ lives?

By Robert Rubsam

October 5, 2018

Feature

The Blackberry Patch

A short story from a new edition of Andre Dubus's fiction.

October 4, 2018

Article

Nasty Woman

There was always anger at assault allegations: touching, drugging, choking; at pay gaps, at locker-room talk. But the anger I’m feeling has changed—for the worse

By Katherine Lucky

October 4, 2018

Article

Injudicious

Kavanaugh’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee was intemperate, partisan, possibly perjurious, plainly injudicious—and disqualifying

October 2, 2018

Domestic Affairs

Article

You stay in the church, despite its sins, because you long for what it proposes about the nature and destiny of human life to be true

Time to Leave?

By Paul Baumann

September 23, 2018

Sexual-abuse Crisis

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Things Fall Apart

A new book tracks the decline of the American middle class over the past few decades, but offers few solutions for building a better future

By Regina Munch

September 12, 2018

Financial Crisis

Article

Undemocratic by Design

Quinn Slobodian's new book is a fascinating look at the neoliberal mystification of markets.

By Eugene McCarraher

October 15, 2018

Article

‘I watched the bats of summer in their flight / above the warehouses, the moonlight passing through / their passing’

Two Poems

By Peter Cooley

October 4, 2018

Article

Letters | Sex abuse & clericalism, the divine right of kings, etc.

Readers write in about clericalism and sex-abuse, the church in China, and more

October 4, 2018

Article

More Justices, Shorter Tenures

The outsized role the Court plays in our politics is unhealthy for our democracy. It’s time to start exploring structural reforms

By Eduardo M. Peñalver

September 20, 2018

Domestic Affairs

Article

Spike Lee’s American Seminar

All these decades since ‘Do The Right Thing,’ the director still hasn't resolved his fundamental ambivalence about America

By Rand Richards Cooper

September 1, 2018

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