ARTICLE Where Politics Is Still Possible Jonathan Malesic To restore your faith in American democracy, visit
a community-college government classroom. Last April, I traveled to Rose State...
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Fix Your Gaze Jonathan Malesic Can art really cure us from digital distraction? On a wet May Saturday while visiting California from Texas, I board the BART train in Berkeley, headed across...
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Another Productivity Hack? JONATHAN MALESIC Everyone wants to get things done, but it can be hard to predict how long they’ll take. Mathematicians needed three centuries to prove...
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JONATHAN MALESIC Cartography of Abandonment The serious subtext of Julian Montague’s ‘cosmic jokes’ Last spring, a shopping cart drifted through my Dallas neighborhood. It was the sort with a...
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Experiments in Self-Reliance What Thoreau has to teach Texas Soon after the power went out one morning in mid-February, and the temperature inside my Dallas home dropped below 50 degrees, I...
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BOOKS Sorry for Your Loss JONATHAN MALESIC REGRET A Theology PAUL J. GRIFFITHS University of Notre Dame Press $30 1152 pp. When the Catholic theologian and Commonweal contributor Paul J....
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ARTICLE Drinking Alone Jonathan Malesic Moving to a Rust Belt town taught me that real solidarity is harder than it looks. One night in August 2005, just after I’d moved to Wilkes-Barre,...
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ARTICLE Taming the Demon How Desert Monks Put Work in Its Place Jonathan Malesic In a remote canyon in northern New Mexico in the mid-1990s, Benedictine monks of the Monastery of Christ in the...
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