The apparently state-sanctioned murder of Mr. Khashoggi offers the administration an opportunity to step back and reassess not just its relationship with the Saudi royal family but the overall mission of the United States throughout the Middle East.
Journalism
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The ‘crisis’ of the migrant caravan is one of misperception
The real threat to the United States is not the unarmed migrants making a dangerous trek through Mexico, it is the fear and hate that sensationalized coverage of the caravan has fomented.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How do I find God in a newsroom massacre?
The Capital Gazette massacre is not only about incalculable loss but also all the gifts the departed gave us and leave us.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
How to read virtuously: Fall Literary Review
With this Fall Books literary issue, we offer writers and texts that we certainly feel are best read closely and conscientiously.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Graham Greene’s ‘The Quiet American’ argues that to write is to be political
At a moment when reporters are being criticized from all sides, ‘The Quiet American’ feels painfully prescient.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The famous Weegee, up close and personal
“People who have never heard of Weegee can describe him,” Bonanos writes, because he created Hollywood’s idea of the newspaper photographer.”
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
The crucifixions of Kara Walker
The images in Kara Walker’s “Christ’s Entry into Journalism” are a strange juxtaposition of past and present, disturbing fact and disturbing fiction.
Posted inFaith, News
Italian journalist says he helped pen bombshell allegation against Pope Francis
Tosatti said he told Vigano: “I think that if you want to say something, now is the moment.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Jesuitical
Julio Ricardo Varela on being the only Latino (Rebel) in the room
This week, we talk with Julio Ricardo Varela, founder of Latino Rebels, a website founded in 2011 that provides news, analysis and commentary about U.S. Latino culture.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: The free press is not the enemy
Today America joins more than 300 U.S. publications in support of the free press, which has been repeatedly insulted by President Donald J. Trump.