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Agnes Howard

Agnes R. Howard teaches in Christ College, the honors college at Valparaiso University, and is author of Showing: What Pregnancy Tells Us about Being Human.

If I Were a Rich Man

Agnes Howard   |  March 17, 2025

Good words are not an elite taste 

A Symposium on Love

Agnes Howard, Timothy Larsen, Jon D. Schaff, Nadya Williams and Robert Erle Barham   |  February 14, 2025

Love’s complexities endure—and love does, too

Ideas in Progress interview: Agnes Howard on family history and the experiences of everyday life

Agnes Howard and Nadya Williams   |  January 2, 2025

Few topics seem as appropriate for discussing at the very beginning of a new year as family–the people who shape us and the people whom we shape in turn. And so, in this first Ideas in Progress interview of 2025, […]

Our favorite essays of 2024 from other little magazines

John Fea, Eric Miller, Robert Erle Barham, Agnes Howard, Timothy Larsen, Dixie Dillon Lane and Nadya Williams   |  December 19, 2024

More of our favorite things!

Some of our favorite things I: Current writers and editors reflect on 2024

Agnes Howard, Timothy Larsen, Adam Jortner, Dixie Dillon Lane and Jim Cullen   |  December 17, 2024

These are a few of our favorite things from 2024.

When Wisdom from on High Draws Nigh

Agnes Howard   |  December 13, 2024

Athanasius reminds us that Advent is for teaching—and learning

FORUM: Election 2024, Part III

Geoffrey Kurtz, Agnes Howard, Philip D. Bunn and Shirley Mullen   |  November 16, 2024

A time to tear down, a time to build

The Daughter of a Presidential Candidate Reflects

Agnes Howard   |  October 25, 2024

I wouldn’t vote for him

REVIEW: Is Potty-Training What You Will Do with Your One Wild and Precious Life?

Agnes Howard   |  September 23, 2024

On the merits and limits of pro-natal progressivism

SUMMERING: Anomie

Agnes Howard   |  July 10, 2024

The annual check-up on our capacity for joy

REVIEW: Kids Are People Too

Agnes Howard   |  May 10, 2024

The reasons for having children are self-explanatory. Why are we rejecting them?

Privilege, Hungarian-style

Agnes Howard   |  February 2, 2024

What is the cost of rejecting inherited identities?

REVIEW: Make Your Best Self

Agnes Howard   |  January 10, 2024

It’s harder than we think it is

Coffee in the Old World’s New World

Agnes Howard   |  November 27, 2023

Starbucks Roasteries ask little of us but cash

Your Grandma Isn’t Cute

Agnes Howard   |  October 25, 2023

What does it mean to live well in old age?

Oh the Places We Went: Picking Berries

Agnes Howard   |  July 24, 2023

June is strawberries. Blueberries are July. In August the raspberries ripen. 

On Fear of Flying

Agnes Howard   |  June 16, 2023

The sublimity—and absurdity—of air travel

REVIEW: Still More Reasons to Be Grateful for Immigrants

Agnes Howard   |  May 11, 2023

Parents who come from someplace else have a lot to teach everyone else

ROUNDTABLE: Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

Ellen Koneck, Natalie Carnes, Leah Libresco Sargeant and Agnes Howard   |  May 2, 2023

Jennifer Banks’ book opens pathways and unveils vistas

The Patient Is a Poor Historian

Agnes Howard   |  March 17, 2023

And the doctor usually is, too

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