Chris Hammer

Chris Hammer is an attorney in New York City.

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Wheels within Wheels

Today, fantastic thinking and a sense of dispossession do not exists solely in the conspiracist’s mind; it has pervaded our polity.

November 13, 2019

Article

The Reasons for Our Rights

Constitutional issues—like guns or speech—are often seen as coming from opposite points of the ideological spectrum. But they may be more similar than we think.

January 30, 2020

Must Reads

Politics

Reading Buttigieg

I have known Buttigieg since I taught him at Harvard. One question animated him: how could Americans unite politically when their culture was increasingly polarized?

By James T. Kloppenberg

February 18, 2020

Religion

Strange Gods

The faith we place in markets and the sacrifices we offer on the altar of capitalism make all modern consumers part of an idolatrous system.

By William T. Cavanaugh

January 21, 2020

Culture

Giving Doctors a Say

Giving medical professionals some agency in end-of-life decisions can be consistent with church teaching. We just need to integrate the concept of futility.

By Michael Redinger

February 24, 2020

Books

The Poetry of Sam Menashe

The short poems of Samuel Menashe are unique: self-contained epigrams, charms, wishes, prayers, descriptive one-shots, shapely units of quotable wisdom.

By Stephanie Burt

February 5, 2020

Collections

Injustice at the Border

The suffering of migrants and refugees on the border cannot be forgotten. Nor can the Trump administration’s deliberate cruelty toward them.

By The Editors

October 28, 2019