Katherine Massinger

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Katherine Massinger is an MFA candidate in Nonfiction at Columbia University, and is the Managing Editor at Commonweal. Follow her on Twitter @kmassinger.

Article

Keep Them Poor & Tired

Jeff Guinn’s new biography-cum-history is a study of persuasion and power in Peoples Temple, the twentieth-century socialist cult led by preacher Jim Jones
By Katherine Massinger
September 7, 2017
Books

Must Reads

Religion

Get Rid of the Clergy

We should distinguish between the sacrament of orders, which we still need, and the clerical state, which we would be better off without
By Joe Holland
April 9, 2018
Culture

Cheating Death

The Silicon Valley entrepreneurs currently waging a war on death should rethink their project
By Mary McDonough
April 4, 2018
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