Magazine

May 2021

v.148 n.5

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Article

Diversity & Division

A new book explores how U.S. Catholic history can provide perspective and hope for the present moment.

May 22, 2021

Article

Patients, Not Problems

The American penal system is deeply dysfunctional, particularly in its treatment of the mentally ill.

By Derek S. Jeffreys

May 18, 2021

Nonfiction

Social Justice

Article

‘Enough Bromides’

What is the future of interreligious dialogue?

By Thomas Albert Howard

May 17, 2021

Jewish-Christian Relations

Muslim-Christian Relations

Nonfiction

Article

Antigonish Activist

Fr. Gregory MacLeod embraced the world “as it is.”

By Michael W. Higgins

May 16, 2021

Social Justice

Feature

‘There’re People Living Under Here’

An exhibit at the New Museum features Black artists brought together in sadness to find solace in company and commonality.

By Clifford Thompson

May 13, 2021

Arts

Race

Article

Frightening Babble

Don’t underestimate Don DeLillo.

By Phil Christman

May 12, 2021

Books

Fiction

Article

From Princes to Managers

The Catholic episcopate is an unstable mixture of the modern and premodern. Understanding its history can help us reform it.

May 9, 2021

Article

Priesthood, Reimagined

A nuanced portrait of the lives and worship spaces of womanpriests

By Mary Kate Holman

May 5, 2021

Books

Women in the Church

Article

A Serious Man

Charles Péguy’s writing rethought the very terms available to describe experience, the visible and vanishing foundations of living.

By Jack Hanson

May 3, 2021

Philosophy

Nonfiction

Book Essay

Article

The Big Zone

When Myroslav Marynovych was arrested at twenty-eight, he was agnostic. When he was released ten years later, he was a Christian ethicist and political thinker.

May 2, 2021

Article

Justice Breyer Needs to Retire

Justice Breyer should retire while he can be sure that a Democratic Senate will consider whomever Biden nominates.

April 28, 2021

Article

Biden’s Foreign Policy

Amid the breathless media chronicling of Biden’s “First Hundred Days,” his strategic guidance has received little attention.

By Andrew J. Bacevich

April 27, 2021

Foreign Affairs

Politics

Joe Biden

Article

Violence in Tigray

The picture slowly emerging from the Tigray region in Ethiopia is desperately grim.

By Regina Munch

April 26, 2021

Foreign Affairs

War and Peace

Article

A Return to Normal?

Though Britain’s vaccine rollout provides a source of hope, it also emphasizes the social inequality exposed by the pandemic.

By Felix Robertson

April 25, 2021

Foreign Affairs

Coronavirus

Article

The Chauvin Conviction

Chauvin’s case is a rare, highly publicized exception to a rule of police violence practiced with impunity.

By Isabella Simon

April 21, 2021

Race

Domestic Affairs

Article

Courage & Convictions

Biden should keep his promise to reinstate higher refugee caps.

By The Editors

April 20, 2021

Immigration

Joe Biden

Article

What Happens Next?

Lauren Oyler’s new novel is a knowing and hilariously bleak model for our internet age.

By Jacob Bacharach

April 15, 2021

Media

Fiction

Article

No More Waiting

I spent the last interminable year waiting in lines. Now that I’ve tasted hope, I want to be done waiting forever.

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

April 13, 2021

Coronavirus

Article

Understanding, Not Ultimatums

Continuing the conversation about sex and gender

April 11, 2021

Article

‘Justly Responsive’

“Every time I read Donoghue, I knew I was reading the work of a master.”

By Anthony Domestico

April 9, 2021

Books

Literature

Article

Two Adoptions

“While nothing can alter or supersede my first adoption, I believe my second adoption might resurrect some of the first one’s losses.”

April 1, 2021

Article

Hope for Suffering Souls

Kirstin Valdez Quade’s new novel centers around the radical promise of the Crucifixion.

March 30, 2021

Article

Gender & Identity

Why does speaking about gender correctly matter?

By Paul J. Griffiths

March 9, 2021

Gender

Sexuality

Article

Despite the rhetoric of Francis, devoid of follow-up as it is, we’re still stuck with deterrence and all its very expensive works and pomps—and perils.