Article What Robots Can’t Do How can we build an ethical future of robots and AI? By Lawrence Joseph October 27, 2020 Technology Social Justice Interview
Article Pope Francis and Civil Unions The confusion around Francis’s comments about same-sex civil unions is not a media crisis. It’s a moral one. By Matthew Sitman October 27, 2020 Pope Francis LGBTQ issues Media
Article Poem | Coexistence Such deep light! / Some of it must begin / inside the leaves. By Marjorie Power October 26, 2020 Poetry
Article Keeping Up With China To retain its position as a world power, argues Matthew Yglesias, the United States needs to dramatically increase its population—fast. By Matt Mazewski October 26, 2020 Immigration Domestic Affairs Economy Books
Article Styles of Writing, Styles of Being Our critic reviews three new books exploring the genius of good sentences and the life of poet John Berryman. By Anthony Domestico October 26, 2020 Books Nonfiction Poetry
Article The Cut of Their Jib The dashing, Johnny Depp-ian swashbuckler may live in our stories, but the motivation for “turning pirate” rarely has anything to do with a yearning for open waters. By Regina Munch October 24, 2020 Books
Article Poem | Garlic Vellum skinned / knuckle bulb // little fist / belonging // in my hand By John Martone October 24, 2020 Poetry
Article Third-Culture Kid “The joy of reunion gave way, necessarily, to grief. After returning home I could feel Brazil receding. It felt like a kind of bereavement.” By Eric Miller October 24, 2020 Latin America Spirituality Travel The Last Word
Article Roots & Reality Being rooted—in family, community, faith—is certainly a good thing. But clinging too doggedly to our roots can blind us to reality. By Clifford Thompson October 23, 2020 Domestic Affairs Race The Last Word
Article ‘A Woman Called Moses’ What would it mean to describe Moses as weak, frail, even feminine? A new book offers a provocative portrayal of the most important Jewish prophet. By Mahri Leonard-Fleckman October 23, 2020 Theology Jewish-Christian Relations
Article Letters | Stories of sin and redemption Readers respond to the Flannery O’Connor controversy, the 1619 project, and the attitudes of early American toward executive authority. By The Editors October 22, 2020 Letters
Article Poem | House at Night Call it night / or the silence of night / or something silent that / happens at night— By Tom Hansen October 21, 2020 Poetry
Article Poem | Untitled Days are come when pleasure is become pain, / come winter short and passing and again By Mark Kirby October 21, 2020 Poetry
Article Confronting Our Civics Deficit Ignorance has proven to be a valuable tool for political division. It’s time that ended. By William Collins Donahue October 21, 2020 Election 2020 Domestic Affairs Web Exclusive
Article Mass in the Orange Zone COVID-19 restrictions on religious services do not cause ‘irreparable harm.’ They are a sacrifice for the common good. By Paul Moses October 19, 2020 Coronavirus U.S. Catholicism Liturgy
