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Vol. 142 Issue 001 (January 9 2015)
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Letters
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LETTERS Dealing with disability A HARD CASE I have been a reader of Commonweal for over fifty years and this was the first time that an article angered and upset me. I refer to "Don't Beatify...
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Shameless
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From the Editors Shameless The Senate Intelligence Committee’s recent report on the CIA’s discontinued interrogation-and-detention program confirmed what many Americans have long suspected: that...
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dotCOMMONWEAL COMMONWEAL & THE NEW REPUBLIC Paul Baumann The big news in the world of opinion journalism—where Commonweal swims unobtrusively alongside much bigger fish (or sharks)—is last week’s...
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Real Politics, Anyone?
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Real Politics, Anyone? TRY CAMPAIGNING ON THE ISSUES The dismal prospect of the 2016 presidential cycle was perfectly captured in a cartoon of New Jersey...
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The Bells of Balangiga
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Quigley, Tom
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SHORT TAKE Tom Quigley The Bells of Balangiga TIME TO FINALLY END THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR President Barack Obama concluded his brief April 2014 visit to the Philippines with a new and...
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Seeking Refuge
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Rose, Ananda
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ARTICLES Seeking Refuge Life & Death at the Border Ananda Rose I have only just arrived at La Posada Providencia, an emergency shelter for homeless migrants and asylum seekers in San Benito,...
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Life & death at the border The Charms of the Conqueror
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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The Charms of the Conqueror How John Updike Made It Look Easy Rand Richards Cooper Imagine a writer who would be the perfect antithesis to today’s literary culture, where confessional narratives...
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The Voice of God
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Karr, Mary
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THE VOICE OF GOD Ninety percent of what’s wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway. but we want magic, to win the lottery we never bought a ticket...
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How John Updike made it look easy FiLM Birdman
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva Blockbusted 'BIRDMAN' We’ve all seen terrific movies about the theater—All About Eve, Les Enfants du Paradis, Topsy-Turvy, among many others. And if you’re familiar with the...
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
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Reynolds, Gabriel Said
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BOOKS Gabriel Said Reynolds Strangers in Their Own Land Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms Gerard Russell Basic Books, $28.99, 352 pp. When the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS, or the Islamic...
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My Two Italies
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Preziosi, Dominic
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Dominic Preziosi Pieta & Meatballs My Two Italies Joseph Luzzi Farrar, Straus and Giroux; $23, 224 pp. The room my wife and I were led to on the first evening of our Sicilian honeymoon had a...
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Evolution, Games, and God
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Pope, Stephen J.
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Stephen J. Pope Help Me Help You Evolution, Games, and God The Principle of Cooperation Edited by Martin A. Nowak and Sarah Coakley Harvard University Press, $35, 416 pp. ice guys finish...
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'Til Faith Do Us Part
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Hochschild, Paige E.
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Paige E. Hochschild The Ties That Bind? ’Til Faith Do Us Part How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America Naomi Schaefer Riley Oxford University Press, $24.95, 256 pp. Since 1960, the...
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The Silent Treatment
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Bassett, Win
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THE LAST WORD The Silent Treatment Win Bassett For at least three hundred hours this past summer, I practiced what not to say. Most people who have completed a unit of clinical pastoral education...
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Vol. 142 Issue 002 (January 23 2015)
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