The slaveholding mistress and her purse strings
Stephanie Jones-Rogers dismantles the stereotype of white female passivity in the pre-Civil War south.
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Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
The Christian virtues and the art of dying
9 values that can shape the end of life in a cruciform way
Immunotherapy’s believers and skeptics
Some scientists couldn’t quite explain what they were seeing. Others literally couldn’t believe it.
St. Fred
Maxwell King’s Mr. Rogers biography is more of a hagiography.
Jill Lepore’s book is the civics course Americans need
At the heart of her narrative is the fate of two political ideals: liberty and popular sovereignty.
Catholicism and the secular state
The intertwining of the Catholic Church and politics, from World War I to Trump
Ross Gay’s fierce, radiant joy
To love the world as an American black man is a subversive act.
Fiction that makes prisons visible
How three novelists depict the reality of incarceration
A personal discipline of Talmud study
Ilana Kurshan shows how the practice of Daf Yoni gave structure to a life made formless and void.
Horror and hope in the face of climate change
Jim Antal calls for a green reformation among churches.
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