Catholic colleges: Do less if you want to save your religious mission
Many Catholic colleges are facing an existential crisis. The prudent strategy is to identify what makes them distinctive and seek a niche where they can flourish.
Diversity Done Right
Diversity Done Right By Alejandro Anreus July 18, 2023 It’s no secret that museums and art galleries are under mounting pressure from activists, critics, artists, and the public to become more diverse. The results have mostly been uneven. But if two extraordinary shows that opened this spring and summer in New York City are any […]
Books in Brief
Books in Brief By The Editors July 18, 2023 A tale that opens with the improbable and comes tantalizingly close to the hard-to-believe—though, as the subtitle says, it’s all true. Found footage from the shoot of Marilyn Monroe’s infamous The Seven Year Itch scene spurs a search into the life of Jules Schulback, Siegler’s grandfather […]
Poem | The Second Perilous Mystery
Poem | The Second Perilous Mystery By Lawrence Dugan July 18, 2023 “Tunc Jesus ductus est in desertum a Spiritu, ut tentaretur a Diabolo.” Matthew, 4:1 Most of the great painters never saw Palestine, Nor any desert, and even Sicily in July Was full of life; but the voice of a desert bird Was […]
Poem | Fish
Poem | Fish By Brian Swann July 18, 2023 The dragonfly hitches up mica wings, one twitch, settles back to watch and wait while trout subtle as water vanish in overhanging branches to rise again as vortex, silt-flick surface rip, wavelets rasping rocks, replying as glass to glass glass […]
Two Poems by April Bernard
Two Poems by April Bernard By April Bernard July 18, 2023 “MY THOUGHTS ARE EAGLES’ FOOD” From a poem by Fulke Greville I seek aid: My grandmother’s gilt clock that plays Greensleeves now fills me with dread; can you muffle its sharp-toothed chime? Dab my forehead with rose water, sing me a song […]
Poem | Reach Out Your Hands
Poem | Reach Out Your Hands By Wally Swist July 18, 2023 Reach out your hands to us. Pulled apart too soon from our mother’s clasp, We range in darkness— Children in a foreign country. Sometimes when it is dark, You lend a native inflection To your wonderful voice, conferring Light and consolation on an […]
‘The Craic Was Mighty’
‘The Craic Was Mighty’ By Isabella Simon July 18, 2023 The accordion player next to me has handed off his instrument and he’s step dancing on the pub floor, soles smacking heavily on the downbeats. It’s a Thursday night session in Manhattan’s East Village where musicians of all ability levels come to share traditional Irish […]
Is Ethics Like Math?
Is Ethics Like Math? By Frank B. Farrell July 18, 2023 Philosophers today are typically unknown outside their discipline, but within it, Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, was considered one of the most important figures of the past fifty years. He had an extraordinary knack for revealing the hidden weaknesses of common moral theories. […]
Uses and Abuses
Uses and Abuses By Elizabeth Lynch July 19, 2023 Every so often, I witness a scene in my neighborhood that’s all too common in New York City. A single car is double-parked on a narrow side street in front of a large apartment building. A blocked, frustrated driver—say, of a school bus full of frenetic […]