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12/09/2024

Americans have always disagreed over politics. That’s not new. But the way we disagree today — often vehemently, over fundamental truths — has altered our civic culture and created an impression of opponents as sinister.

Driven to extremes by a matrix of our own making

12/06/2024

This 1994 essay exploring the racial undercurrents, and overt discrimination, in American life remains relevant today. A longtime contributor to the magazine, Anthony Walton has included this piece in his latest book, “The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation.”

Editor’s Note: This 1994 essay exploring the racial undercurrents, and overt discrimination, in American life remains relevant today. A longtime contributor to the magazine, Anthony Walton has included this piece in his latest book, The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning…

12/06/2024

Photo of the week:

Photo of the Week: Blown Away Author: Matt Cashore ’94 Published: December 06, 2024 "Trees wearing scarves" weather has arrived on campus. Photo of the Week highlights images from campus and from the Notre Dame family around the world. Have a snapshot you think we should see? Email [email protected]...

12/06/2024

A reflection on life, death, and community by Jennifer Anne Moses, 'Please Come to My Funeral' will leave you thinking about the legacy we leave behind.

Read it here:

During the many years that my mother fought the cancer that eventually killed her, she liked nothing better than planning her funeral. She knew exactly what she wanted and, moreover, exactly what she wished to be buried in: a bright red sweatshirt smattered with stars along with matching sweatpants....

12/05/2024

Erin Buckley ’08 reflects on a moment from her morning commute.

My driving commute takes me through a school zone, where the other day I saw a man on foot about to enter the crosswalk with his child. As he stepped into the street, he lifted his hand into the air. With an open palm toward me, he extended his arm at shoulder height and kept it there as he crossed....

12/04/2024

Teacher and writer Stephen K. Bauer reflects on the incompletes of life.

Considering my hopes for my college students at the beginning of a semester, I picture a race from elementary school, on Field Day. Maybe the 400-yard dash. The start is called, and some kids sprint toward the first turn, arms churning. Others start well and fade, but all do manage to finish, even.....

12/03/2024

“Afterward, she walked us to our train, and we embraced and cheek-kissed goodbye. I’m sure I pledged to keep in touch. On the platform, waving, she choked up. In my seat on the train, I didn’t.”

When my friend Brian and I arrived at my pen pal Delphine’s house on the broad plain of central France in the summer of 1998, her parents first offered us a shower. Whether it was customary to offer one to all visitors, or whether French lore had it that Americans were fussy about bathing, I could...

12/02/2024

If you watched the A&M vs. Texas game, you may have heard about the “revolutionary” TayCo Athletic Brace. Developed by longtime Notre Dame associate athletic trainer Mike Bean, this patented ankle brace helped Quinn Ewers play through a high ankle sprain and is now used by 23 NFL teams and 80+ college programs.

When the Notre Dame football team takes the field, the famous gold helmets and pads aren’t the only protective gear players don. The TayCo athletic brace protects players’ ankles on the field. Developed by Mike Bean, a longtime associate athletic trainer for the football team, the brace is…

12/02/2024

Five years after the devastating fire, the beauty of Notre-Dame de Paris is being revealed once again. Revisit our story on why saving this global icon is so important.

After a severely damaging fire in 2019, Notre-Dame de Paris undergoes a restoration.

11/30/2024

Photo of the Week:

Members of the Notre Dame Marching Band trumpet section play the alma mater at the end of the Shamrock Series pregame Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. Photo of the Week highlights images from campus and from the Notre Dame family around the world. Have a snapshot you…

11/29/2024

“No one knew, and I never told anyone until this day. My secret has stayed between me, God and Bruce Springsteen for all these years, and now I confess it to you.”

Read personal essays on this issue's theme, Dorm Masses:

Notre Dame Magazine invites personal essays of no more than 250 words on subjects of nostalgic interest to alumni of all ages. Selected submissions will be published in a future print edition or online at magazine.nd.edu. Please send fun, meaningful or evocative stories from your student days…

11/28/2024

“Each Thanksgiving for maybe 10 years, when I was editor here, I wrote a thank you letter to someone to whom I owed a good measure of gratitude. I never wrote about Matt.”

Matt Storin ’64 will tell you that he is responsible for James Taylor’s marriage to Caroline Smedvig. And he is right. The story goes like this. In the early 1990s, Storin was editor of The Boston Globe, interviewing applicants for a position with the esteemed newspaper. He was impressed…

11/27/2024

“The way I see it, every celebratory meal with loved ones is Thanksgiving — especially the carbohydrate- and butter-rich meals we share in November. When I pour and drink from the love of family and of friends on and around the Thanksgiving holiday, they are not distinct vintages. They are the same drink — rich and velvety, changed but not diminished with age, the kind that warms the body from the inside out.”

Why I resist distinguishing between friends and family Thanksgiving celebrations

11/26/2024

“He knew it wouldn’t last. Darkness, cold water, the physical strain of stroke after monotonous stroke and the mental burden of the interminable distance would exact a toll. Plus, the jellyfish.”

Read about Alex Robinson ’16 and his swim across the English Channel.

. . . and miles to swim before he sleeps.

11/25/2024

See what fellow members of the Notre Dame family have to say about the Summer 2024 Notre Dame Magazine:

The letters we publish here are edited for space and are representative of those we receive. We print only those letters referring to an article in the most recent edition of the magazine, not those responding to letters or commenting on issues not addressed in the recent edition. …

11/22/2024

Photo of the Week:

The campus skyline at night Photo of the Week highlights images from campus and from the Notre Dame family around the world. Have a snapshot you think we should see? Email [email protected]…

11/22/2024

Our latest issue, State of the Union, is here! 🇺🇸

Check it out online to read thoughtful essays on justice, democracy, civil discourse, and the future of our nation.

Notre Dame Magazine has something to say about the state of the world. We offer good reading, literate conversations in print and online about what makes you think, what makes you feel, what touches your soul.

11/21/2024

“And they all worked to an extent, but I just felt like there was something that I could do to be a little bit more protective, a little bit more functional.”

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