December 2021
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Advancing in Place
We’re stuck. The signal innovations of modern times—mass water purification, electricity, automobiles, modern manufacturing processes—are behind us.…
Crisis of Legitimacy
People talk a lot about polarization. It is true that polling shows a growing partisan divide. But…
Food For Two Meals
Philosophers are supposed to be doubters. When we think of Socrates, the patron saint and martyr of…
Generation Against Generation
A war is slowly brewing. It pits parents against their children and children against their parents. Longstanding social…
On The Threshold
“I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry.…
Happy Hanukkah
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and in our jingle-belling hearts and our hap-happiest TV…
Letters
Scorekeeping Julia Yost’s wide-ranging and masterly critique of The Body Keeps the Score (“By Our Wounds We…
Sincerely, Rodgers & Hammerstein
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who comprised the most consequential partnership in the history of American…
The Fall of Dr. Raoult
Nothing stimulates the emergence of a guru like a crisis, especially one to which the correct response…
The Praise of Color
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is open again. One has to book an entry time so…
The Toll of Unbelief
On a single weekend in June 2021, seven people died of drug overdoses in Rochester, New York.…
Impersonal Responsibility
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynastyby patrick radden keefedoubleday, 560 pages, $32.50 How…
It’s Not All In Your Head
Leave Societyby tao linvintage, 368 pages, $16 r The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discoveryby ross…
Our Divided House
Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatnessby charles r. keslerencounter, 488…
The Irreligious Right
A World After Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Rightby matthew roseyale, 208 pages, $28 In a series…
Christmas Party
One more dead party, and, off to the sideAmong the knick-knacks and the curios,In a blue blazer…
Collect for the First Sunday in Advent
’Tis the year’s midnight, and it is the day’s,Lucy’s, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks.— John Donne,…
Nolde’s “Heilige Nacht” (1912)
Mary’s long white armslift the baby high above her head.He is seated in her palms, a pose…
The Morning After Angels
The morning after angelsSt. Joseph sanded wood,Nailed smooth boards at right angles,And though the crib was rude,…
