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

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Hearsay & Insinuation

J. Edgar Hoover, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn created a security state dependent on gossip and insinuation that persists today.

December 3, 2021

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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

‘The Church Must Be Political’

In light of the upcoming USCCB meeting, Bishop John Stowe discusses the role of politics in the Church.

By John Gehring

November 8, 2021

Religion

Going Gray

Reminders of death—and of the dead—needn't be terrifying.

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

November 1, 2021

Culture

Babylon & Boogie Street

Throughout Leonard Cohen’s life, he sought a commitment to others that echoed, however imperfectly, Jesus’s love.

By Marcia Pally

November 11, 2021

Books

Power in Perpetuity?

China’s Communist Party has succeeded in large part because of its adaptability. But under Xi Jinping, party structures are changing.

By Elizabeth M. Lynch

November 11, 2021

Collections

The Varieties of Religious Community Today

In the face of precariousness and uncertainty, religious orders and lay Catholic communities model how to live in relation with both one other and God.

By The Editors

October 27, 2021