Magazine

November 9, 2018

v.145 n.18

Article

Ypres, a Century On

A reverential visit to the graves at Ypres, the Belgian site of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I, in honor of the centennial anniversary

By Jay Copp

November 10, 2018

The Last Word

War and Peace

Spirituality

Article

A Lung-Cleansing Scream

Little of the critique mounted by Fountain qualifies as entirely original, but Fountain’s voice invests his testimony with an authority that commands respect

By Andrew J. Bacevich

November 9, 2018

Donald Trump

Election 2016

Books

Article

The Enlightenment We Need

In an era of looming climate apocalypse and aimless elites, the Enlightenment has the potential to anchor projects of social emancipation and ecological sanity

By James Chappel

November 8, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Books

Article

Pilgrims & Progress

John Winthrop’s famous 1630 sermon, cited as an American classic, celebrates neither rugged individualism nor American exceptionalism

By Paul Baumann

November 6, 2018

Domestic Affairs

Books

Secularism and Modernity

Economy

Article

When Facts Were Enough

Serious, informed, yet also passionate, ‘Silent Spring’ is a model of how to write for the general public about complicated things

November 6, 2018

Article

Say What You Mean

In the second novel from one of the founding editors of n+1, readers travel to a country where the market is god, and the guy in charge is a crude thug

November 4, 2018

Article

Our Myth, Their Lie

At the root of the sex abuse crisis is structure, the way church governance has calcified in past centuries; that structure has to go

November 1, 2018

Article

Blood Types

Contrary to long-held romantic narratives, Vampires haunted the most cutting-edge social, theological, political, and medical thinking in enlightened Europe

By Regina Munch

October 31, 2018

Books

Secularism and Modernity

Article

A Shameful Alliance

After the Khashoggi murder, it is time for the United States to reconsider its cynical relationship with Saudi Arabia

By The Editors

October 25, 2018

Editorial

Foreign Affairs

Donald Trump

Article

Unjust and Unjustified

After his latest letter, it has become clear that what Viganò is really incensed about is homosexuality in the priesthood

October 23, 2018

Article

Take These Jobs and Shove ’Em

Why, despite advances in productivity, are so many of us still working such long hours at jobs that seem like they could disappear without anyone noticing?

October 22, 2018

Article

The Elements of Style

More than a mere exercise in rhetorical analysis, today’s best criticism is an exercise in self-forgetting love

By Anthony Domestico

October 20, 2018

Poetry

Fiction

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Too Familiar

A Catholic nun from the South Indian state of Kerala has defied her congregation to publicly accuse a prominent bishop of repeatedly raping her for two years.

By Jo McGowan

October 4, 2018

Sexual-abuse Crisis

Feature

The Case of Theodore McCarrick

The whistle-blower in the McCarrick affair narrates the steps he took to report the former cardinal’s abusive behavior, but also the ways in which it was ignored

February 16, 2019

Article

Makers & Takers

Two new films showcase talented women whose husbands self-destruct—leaving them in mourning, even as they are freed to thrive

By Rand Richards Cooper

November 3, 2018

Movies

Article

Survivor, Wreck of the Jason

He washed up on shingle, / frozen, bleary with sleet.

By Catherine Staples

October 29, 2018

Poetry

Article

The perception of virginity by the hierarchy is distorting, ill-conceived, and toxic.

Letters | Maria Goretti & Anna Kolesárová, abortion & infanticide

By The Editors

October 29, 2018

Letters

Article

Double Lives

The sex-abuse scandal has raised strong emotions on all sides of the debate. But we need clarity, and transparency, especially in the McCarrick investigation

By Kenneth L. Woodward

October 26, 2018