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September 2022

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An Epidemic of Delusions

A new book explores how and why Americans cling so tightly to irrational views.

By Ryan M. Brown

September 26, 2022

Books

Philosophy

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What’s Wrong with the ‘Burbs?

Climate activist and author Bill McKibben on race, inequality, and the intergenerational fight against climate change.

September 20, 2022

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The Dominance of Place

With “Last Letter to a Reader,” the eccentric Australian author Gerald Murnane officially concludes his career as a writer for publication.

By Jack Hanson

September 19, 2022

Books

Fiction

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A Country of Churches

Ukraine will win the war because it is a country characterized by hope—by the conviction that life can get better through collective effort.

By Adrian Bonenberger

September 19, 2022

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‘No Longer a European Export’

Catholicism has become the most multicultural and multilingual institution in the world.

September 17, 2022

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Why Ukraine Matters

Putin is waiting for the citizens of Western countries to lose interest in aiding Ukraine. We must make sure that they don’t.

By Michael C. Kimmage

September 14, 2022

Ukraine

Foreign Affairs

War and Peace

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Eunuchs & Maidens

Lisabeth During writes on the changing meaning and influence of chastity, neither lamenting nor offering an apology for its decline.

By Michael West

September 12, 2022

Books

Sexuality

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Abortion in Italy

While Italy’s Catholic hierarchy lamented freedom of abortion, it never tried to mount the kind of culture war that U.S. bishops did.

By Massimo Faggioli

September 11, 2022

Abortion

Vatican

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End It Now

A new book about solitary confinement captures its horrors, but fails to grasp the moral urgency of abolishing the practice.

By Derek S. Jeffreys

September 10, 2022

Ethics

Nonfiction

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The High Price of Dobbs

Evangelicals inflicted misgovernment and disgrace on their fellow Americans to overturn Roe. Quite possibly, their fellow Americans will not thank them for it.

September 6, 2022

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The Paradox of Public Scholarship

Public-facing scholarship has become a given for many academics—but at what cost?

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

September 6, 2022

Higher Education

Race

Gender

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Beyond Bans

Post-Dobbs bans and restrictions are not merely confusing, cruel, and unjust, but also a direct assault on the common good.

By Lisa Fullam

September 3, 2022

Abortion

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Good Samaritans?

If we were to frame abortion in Samaritan terms, the Dobbs decision returns the wrong issue to the states.

August 31, 2022

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Making the Rent

Affordable housing is in short supply for tenants squeezed by sky-high rents.

By The Editors

August 29, 2022

Domestic Affairs

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Earnest Desire

Pope Francis’s letter on liturgical formation challenges and affirms the People of God as a whole.

August 27, 2022

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Smothering the Coptic Church

A fire that killed forty-one reveals the less-obvious difficulties Coptic Christians endure as part of daily life.

By Regina Munch

August 26, 2022

Middle East

Foreign Affairs

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Lock Him Up?

Declining to charge Trump for fear of how his supporters might react would concede to him the one thing he’s always wanted: total impunity.

By Griffin Oleynick

August 25, 2022

Donald Trump

Politics

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The Inflation Reduction Act

Though nominally targeting inflation, the IRA’s most significant benefits are its investments in health care and clean energy.

August 24, 2022

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‘I Believe in the Beatitudes’

The late Tom Cornell was an antiwar and civil-rights activist, a journalist, a farmer, and a devoted member of the Catholic Worker movement.

August 16, 2022

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Scandals that Stick

Following Boris Johnson’s resignation, the Conservative party must reckon with upcoming challenges and the lingering stain of the Partygate scandal.

By Felix Robertson

August 5, 2022

Foreign Affairs

Letters

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Many Africans have concluded that there is a double standard in international criminal justice, one that allows powerful states to protect themselves and their allies from the court’s reach.

Double Standards

By Fernando C. Saldivar

July 28, 2022

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Strict Account

Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Manifesto’ offers a clear, spirited account of the author’s experience as a biracial woman in the publishing world.

July 23, 2022

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A Power of Refusal

Will Arbery’s ‘Corsicana’ forces the audience to confront its characters as individuals, not merely types.

By Daniel Walden

July 2, 2022

Arts

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The Steadfast Gaze

When faced with the horror of war, we want to tame it into something with order and meaning.

By Rand Richards Cooper

June 23, 2022

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Endless Slaughter

Our weapons in Ukraine kill combatants and noncombatants alike, extending a bloody conflict. Is it worth it?

June 7, 2022

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But we cannot return to the debate as it was fifty years ago; there is too much water under the bridge.

Deepening the Divisions

By Cathleen Kaveny

September 25, 2022

Supreme Court

Abortion

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Why They Call Us

When we talk about abortion in America, we must talk about the suffering, shame, and guilt caused by the belief that it’s wrong to have a baby when you’re poor.

By Eve Tushnet

September 24, 2022

Abortion

Health Care

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A Defining Conflict

The fight over the personhood of the fetus is reminiscent of another fight in American history—one that led to the Civil War.

By David Cloutier

September 8, 2022

History

Abortion

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Picture Imperfect

David Chalmers’s new book, ‘Reality+,’ asks us to consider whether virtual worlds can be real, too.

August 31, 2022

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Poem | Soul Deep

“It is so hard to improvise a home / And make sure yourself is yourself”

By Jeff Fallis

August 31, 2022

Poetry

Article

Poem | This Summer Day

“How you have remained beautiful / over these fourteen years, // beautiful and optimistic”

By Yehoshua November

August 30, 2022

Poetry

Article

Two Poems from Micheal O’Siadhail’s ‘Testament’

“Almighty, I’ve no knock-down proof of you— / You’re far beyond the reach of any thought, / All logic fails, no argument will do”

By Micheal O’Siadhail

August 30, 2022

Poetry

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Poem | Bats

“Any mistake’s no big deal as they / do things their own way, sleeping // all day in attic and eave”

By Brian Swann

August 30, 2022

Poetry

Article

The abuse of those symbols by others should in no way obscure the truth of their intended message any more than the sins of those who abuse the cross should obscure its truth.

Letters | Accessing the classics, symbols of inclusion, and solidarity with victims

By The Editors

August 30, 2022

Letters

Article

The U.S. Catholic Church has squandered much of its credibility on the issue of abortion by aligning itself with a political party that cannot plausibly claim to have the best interests of struggling mothers and families at heart.

Abortion After Dobbs

By The Editors

August 30, 2022

Abortion

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