The Games of Tomorrow: Where big money is taking sports
Sports in the United States is more and more about more and more money. From Pulitzer-Prize winner Dave Anderson.
A Classroom of the Heart: The surprising lessons of a summer spent playing ultimate frisbee
What I learned playing ultimate frisbee
A Sporting Chance: Title IX and the seismic shift in women’s sports
How federal legislation provided new opportunities for women in sports.
Experiencing Life’s Flow: Sports and the spiritual life
Dynamics internal to playing sports can lead to the flourishing of persons
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Just war, nonviolence, and the prophetic versus the pastoral.
Letters
Letters
Au Contraire Thanks to William Thompson-Uberuaga for his insightful look at the very important priest John-Jacques Olier in “Christians Who Can Breathe and Laugh” (9/15). As a priest trained by the Sulpicians, I learned much about Olier’s spirituality and the enormous influence his
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The Sporting Life
Our national obsession with sports reflects both the best and the worst aspects of our culture.
Books
The Charms of the Plutocracy
The damage done is deep and chronic.
Father of the New Russia
As Timothy J. Colton argues in his new biography, Yeltsin: A Life, Yeltsin did more than any other leader to point Russia toward democracy.
Hans and the City
'Netherland' is not another razzle-dazzle, postmodern novel for 23-year-old M.F.A.s.
Poetry
Two Weeks In
Today was better,
The Word
The Greatest Commandments
God’s love for us is the fundamental presupposition of the entire Bible.
Catholic Book Club
October Selection
The pre-eminent church historian John W O rsquo Malley is well known to Catholic Book Club members and readers everywhere for his scholarship insight clear writing and detailed reliable analysis His many books–The First Jesuits Trent and All That and Four Cultures of the West among them–were
Columns
Money Mania: It was only appropriate that resistance to the bailout was bipartisan.
It was only appropriate that resistance to the bailout was bipartisan.
Current Comment
Current Comment: The Manhattan Crisis
Context for the financial crisis facing the United States.
News
Signs of the Times
Almost 10,000 Refugees in Orissa State
The superior general of the Missionaries of Charity said the situation in India’s troubled Orissa State is a call for Christians to be witnesses to the faith. “Disciples cannot be greater than their master,” said Nirmala Joshi, M.C., the successor of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who founded…
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