Magazine

June 14, 2019

v.146 n.11

Article

West Africa’s New Wave

African influence is resurgent in world fashion, music, visual arts, and, increasingly, literature. Two new novels demonstrate the continent’s cultural vitality.

June 10, 2019

Article

The Little Ivies’ Aggiornamenti

Francis Oakley’s memoir about higher education emphasizes “the lifelong pursuit of liberal learning”—education through engagement with those who disagree with you.

By Nicholas Clifford

June 6, 2019

Higher Education

Academic Freedom

Article

Inconvenient

A new book by Simon Blackburn considers several different domains of ‘truth,’ including ethics, aesthetics, religion, and the interpretation of legal documents.

By John Schwenkler

June 5, 2019

Philosophy

Article

Learning to Notice

Drawing on the mystery of Christ in the liturgy to nourish one’s own life of faith is not always a self-evident or easy thing to do. We need to become mystagogues.

June 3, 2019

Article

Lingering on the Margins

The church is a liminal space I’m lingering in: a space of transition, of walking along boundaries, of being neither in nor out, of neither staying nor leaving.

By Mary M. Doyle Roche

June 2, 2019

Article

The View from Dover

The fortunes of the coastal city of Dover are slowly on the rise, at least for now. But a dark shadow looms: the threat of a no-deal Brexit.

May 21, 2019

Article

The Burden of Suffering

What it means to suffer or to be spared suffering, to be granted or refused martyrdom, is at the heart of the drama of ‘Dialogues des Carmélites.’

June 4, 2019

Article

Poem | The Nuclear Winter

In nuclear winters of the moral will / The windows’ frost hides housed and heated guilt.

By Joshua Hren

June 3, 2019

Poetry

Article

Poem | The Return

The fractured fossil is swept, / and an ashtray takes its place.

By Michael Cadnum

June 3, 2019

Poetry

Article

All councils are doctrinal in the sense that they proclaim a teaching.

Letters | Does the church do paradigm shift?

By The Editors

June 3, 2019

Letters

Article

Hannah Arendt’s Politics of Possibility

The Trump era has made us all too familiar with the warnings of Hannah Arendt. We would do well, though, to also confront her political hopes.

By John Thomason

June 3, 2019

Secularism and Modernity

Foreign Affairs

Philosophy

Article

Abortion & Performative Politics

Pro-life and pro-choice activists have seized on Alabama’s new abortion law to energize their supporters. But abortion demands more than performative politics.

By The Editors

May 30, 2019

Abortion

U.S. Catholicism

Social Justice

Article

Have You Tried Scotus?

The medieval Franciscan philosopher and theologian Duns Scotus is barely studied today. But the church would be enriched by a renewed engagement with his works.

By Peter L. P. Simpson

May 29, 2019

Philosophy

Theology

Vatican II