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Article: Walter Ong, Judith Butler, and the Vatican on Gender (REVIEW ESSAY) - In this wide-ranging and lengthy review essay, I highlight the American Jesuit Walter Ong's 1981 Book Fighting for Life: contest, Sexuality [Gender], and Consciousness (Cornell University Press); the American leftist Judith Butler's new 2024 book Who's Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); and the Vatican's just released new 2024 document on, in part, gender theory.

Article: Thomas J. Farrell on His Most Memorable Year (REVIEW ESSAY) - In this wide-ranging and associative and digressive and lengthy essay, I commemorate my memorable year of living in Manhattan and teaching English at City College/CUNY in 1975-1976. I focus of four fine people I knew when I was there: (1) Mina P. Shaughnessy (1924-1978); (2) Theodore L. Gross (1931-2022); (3) Edward Quinn (1932-2012); and (4) Sarah D'Eloia (1943-1990).

The combination of religious faith and prophetic political action that marked César Chávez’s hunger strikes would become typical of many other moments in his long career as a labor organizer turned American icon.