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May 2023

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Has College Crushed the American Dream?

Will Bunch's new book analyzes the role of higher education in perpetuating the political divides in the United States.

May 31, 2023

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Reckoning With Birth

Birth is one of humanity’s most under-explored subjects. Minimizing birth diminishes one of the greatest powers humans have had: the creation of life itself.

May 26, 2023

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The Poetry of Reality

In a revelatory Gwendolyn Brooks poem, God is actual: so woven into reality that the question of God’s own reality can’t meaningfully occur.

May 23, 2023

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Duke Ellington’s Sacred Swing

The music of Duke Ellington weaves together religious sensibilities with the sensibilities of this world. It elevates spirit, mind, and body.

May 20, 2023

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Glimpses of Ukraine

As important as features about war and suffering are, they miss much of the essence of Ukraine.

By Megan Buskey

May 20, 2023

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Sanitizing John Paul II

For Poland’s right-wing government, any frank discussion of John Paul II’s role in covering up clergy sex abuse is tantamount to “hybrid warfare.”

May 16, 2023

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One Heartbreaking Friendship

In his perceptive and unforgettable memoir, Hua Hsu reflects on music, Asian American identity, and a beautiful friendship that ends in tragedy.

By Burke Nixon

May 15, 2023

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Running Dry

States relying on the shrinking Colorado River need to cut their consumption, and they need to do it soon.

By Isabella Simon

May 13, 2023

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No War Is Good

Nonviolent resistance is not just a plausible strategy to defend Ukraine—it is a path to conversion on both sides of the conflict.

By William T. Cavanaugh

May 10, 2023

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The Possibility of a Just War

Tobias Winright discusses the tension between just war theory and Pope Francis's teachings of nonviolence in light of the war in Ukraine.

May 10, 2023

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Changing Our Minds About Time

In her latest book, Jenny Odell challenges the very idea of time management.

May 7, 2023

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Stand-your-ground laws literally weaponize paranoia, and they promote a private arms race in a country already drowning in guns.

Indefensible ‘Self Defense’

By Miles Doyle

May 6, 2023

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‘The Gospel Is a Social Gospel’

Rev. Traci Blackmon and her tradition of prophetic Black faith remain the moral epicenter of the social-justice movement in the United States.

May 5, 2023

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Francis Is a Revolutionary

For filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, Pope Francis is a revolutionary, a man who calls on us to imagine a better world. But being a revolutionary comes with loneliness.

May 3, 2023

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The Gamification of Romance

The shift of our desires to online spaces has brought about a “desirevolution,” transforming how we find love and sex, and what we expect from our erotic lives.

By Matt McManus

May 2, 2023

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A Bishop Chooses Prison

By targeting Msgr. Rolando José Álvarez, Daniel Ortega thought that he was ridding himself of a meddlesome priest. Instead, he may have created a martyr.

May 1, 2023

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Lifelines

C. C. Wang's paintings show how modern art can build on a long historical tradition, rather than casting it aside.

By Xiao Situ

April 27, 2023

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Do Priests Have a Right to Privacy?

Is it moral to spend millions of dollars to turn peoples’ cell-phone data into a tracking device for wayward clerics?

April 27, 2023

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Fox’s Factual Malice

Saving American democracy will require much more from us than cheering on a lawsuit, or jeering as another Fox host gets his comeuppance.

By The Editors

April 26, 2023

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What Can Sports Teach Us About Democracy?

“Could we imagine a different sports revolution—one where professional sports come to be celebrated as a public good?”

April 15, 2023

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Famine and the Living God

East Africa is in the midst of the worst drought in living memory. Devastation here will not be the result of some natural evil so much as our own lack of care.

By Karen Kilby

April 4, 2023

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What Do Movies Remember?

New films by Steven Spielberg and Charlotte Wells offer two profoundly different views of film’s relationship to memory.

March 31, 2023

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Poem | Not Good Company

"My idea of intimate is apt to be some / terrible statistic."

By Elizabeth Poreba

May 2, 2023

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Poem | Lilacs

"When they ducked through the overgrown arbor, / wet blossoms showered down a private storm."

By Stuart Dybek

May 2, 2023

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"Who does their world and ours belong to now?"

Poem | The Power Hose

By W. S. Di Piero

May 2, 2023

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MAiD is eminently compassionate: the intent is to avoid suffering when death is near, even if that intervention substantially hastens the arrival of death. If God is compassionate, so should we be.

Letters | Compassion in death, comfort in music

By The Editors

April 29, 2023

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