Magazine

November 2020

v.147 n.10

Download PDF

Previous Issue Next Issue

Article

The Possibility of Love

Marilynne Robinson's latest novel immerses readers into our complicated national history.

By Valerie Sayers

November 17, 2020

Books

Fiction

Article

Glimpses of a New Order

Is a return to the old “normal” inevitable, or does this moment invite us to forge new patterns of living?

By E. R. Powell

November 10, 2020

Arts

Article

‘I Bring Myself, My Black Self’

Through her activism and pioneering work in African-American Catholic spirituality, Sr. Thea Bowman challenged the Church to confront its own systemic racism.

By Tia Noelle Pratt

November 3, 2020

U.S. Catholicism

Higher Education

Article

Democracy in America?

The Republican Party under Donald Trump has abandoned even a minimal commitment to democratic government.

By The Editors

November 3, 2020

Election 2020

Donald Trump

Domestic Affairs

Article

Saving the New START Treaty

It’s time to prioritize our arms-control agreements.

November 2, 2020

Article

Soundtrack to an Encyclical

León Gieco’s Argentinian protest anthem might help us understand ‘Fratelli tutti.’

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

October 29, 2020

Article

War in Nagorno-Karabakh

The escalating conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia calls for international diplomacy, but the Trump administration is failing to contain the crisis.

October 29, 2020

Article

Justice Thirty Years in the Making

In 1989, eight people were murdered at a Jesuit university in El Salvador. Now, the man who helped orchestrate the killing is finally brought to justice.

September 23, 2020

Article

Dan Chiasson’s ‘The Math Campers’

Dan Chiasson’s latest poetry collection uses art as a way of joining the sublime and the earthly.

November 22, 2020

Article

Faith Comes Through Hearing

“Some days, although we cannot pray—because we are too busy, or because we are in too much pain, or simply because the words will not come—a prayer utters itself.”

November 15, 2020

Article

Bad Education

Charter schools are often touted as revolutionary solutions to public school problems. But these schools have sidelined both Black communities and teachers.

By Mercedes K. Schneider

November 11, 2020

Education

Domestic Affairs

Nonfiction

Article

Belief & Disbelief

For John Cottingham, theism provides a framework for consciousness and morality. Belief is thus a live option for thoughtful, intellectually responsible people.

November 10, 2020

Article

Warnings from India

A new essay collection chronicles the disappearance of freedom in the Indian subcontinent.

November 9, 2020

Article

Neither Demonic nor Heroic

The mission of papal apologists is not simply to challenge threats to Pius XII’s reputation. It is to “demolish” them.

By Kevin Madigan

November 2, 2020

U.S. Catholicism

Foreign Affairs

Jewish-Christian Relations

Article

Not a Normal Election

By telling Americans in advance that he intends to stay in power regardless of the vote count, Trump implicates his supporters in his actions.

November 2, 2020

Article

Riding with the Hourlies

Would I wind up performing meaningless tasks for the rest of my life? Worse still, would I become the executive in charge of getting others to do so?

November 1, 2020

Article

The New Integralists

They get a lot wrong, but we can’t ignore them. They can only be defeated by offering a deeper, more expansive narrative of Catholic political thought.

By Timothy Troutner

October 28, 2020

U.S. Catholicism

Politics