“Hugh Hefner, a Chicago man, keeps sending us copies of his magazine, Playboy.”
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
Slack and Trello and Google Docs, oh my! On realizing I am a technological dinosaur
The new guy at America’s office discovers technology passed him by.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What would Thomas Merton and Daniel Berrigan say about the Benedict Option?
A monk’s vocation is toward God, not a strategic retreat from something else.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Trump says inner-city crimes are going up. He’s wrong.
Almost all major cities in the United States have experienced major decreases in violent crime over the past 25 years.
Posted inFaith
To think that I saw it on 56th Street: a farewell to America House
It is a bittersweet day for all who lived and worked at the longtime home of America magazine.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What would Jefferson say about today’s America?
What perils would Jefferson and Franklin warn us against?
Posted inColumns, Faith
What Canadian religious history can teach us about U.S. church attendance
Once grouped with the Irish and the Polish as a signally devout Catholic population, the citizens of Quebec are now quite the opposite.
Posted inBooks
Moody’s third volume of “Ezra Pound: Poet” delves into the poet’s fascist tendencies. James T. Keane reviews.
“We are more comfortable with Ezra Pound the madman, because we do not want to ponder Pound the monster.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Columns
Where have all the Catholic intellectuals gone?
If the Christian intellectual is dead, has a Catholic cousin survived?
Posted inColumns
Why bother with the humanities?
Economic advantage is not the only goal of higher education.