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 Vol. 143 Issue 013 (August 12 2016)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Fan Mail REQIIIESCAT IN pACE Commonweal, which will be celebrating its ninety-second anniversary this year, is ten years younger than my mother, who was a very longtime subscriber and...
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'I Alone'
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From the Editors 'I Alone' For more than a year now, half the country and most of the media have responded to Donald Trump's presidential campaign with a mixture of amusement, disgust, and morbid...
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Condescension, Brexit and Millennial
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dotCOMMONWEAL BREXIT & MILLENNIAL CONDESCENSION Regina Munch Much has been said about the generational divide in the results of the Brexit vote—the tendency of Remain supporters to be in their...
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Never Too Old to Feel Orphaned
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McGowan, Jo
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COLUMNIST Jo McGowan Never Too Old to Feel Orphaned MOURNING PARENTS IN MIDDLE AGE Iwas nine years old when my father's mother died. I still remember hearing the phone ring and knowing—...
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In the Hands of an Angry Electorate
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Storrar, William
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ELECTION 2016 William Storrar In the Hands of an Angry Electorate RHETORIC IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE From my office window in Princeton I look out across the street to Morven, the home of Richard...
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A Season of Discontent
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Sheehan, James J.
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ARTICLES A Season of Discontent The Revolt against Europe's Political Establishment James J. Sheehan Like a flash of lightning on a dark summer night, the British referendum on the European...
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Sound & Fury
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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Sound & Fury What Does Brexit Signify? Andrew J. Bacevich Not since Y2K plunged the planet into chaos— remember?—has a story provoked overwrought handwringing comparable to that triggered by...
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Floating on the Lehigh
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Martin, Paul
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FLOATING ON THE LEHIGH So I wouldn't forget even one of the sins from the Table in my prayer book, I wrote them down and recited them from a notebook page I unfolded in the confessional,...
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Catholic Cuba
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Anreus, Alejandro
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Catholic Cuba From Las Casas to the Castros Alejandro Anreus In his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton described his visit to Cuba during Easter week 1939. Recalling that he...
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Getting There before Starbucks
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Dufresne, Bethe
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Getting There before Starbucks A First Visit to Cuba Bethe Dufresne Like many stories travelers tell about Cuba, mine begins in a taxi. But it wasn't one of those miraculously maintained cars...
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Berlin Stories
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Rodden, John; Rossi, John P.
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Berlin Stories Misreading the 1936 Olympics John Rodden & John P. Rossi Infamously known as "the Nazi Olympics" or "Hitler's Games," the 1936 Olympics are—like so much else associated with the...
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The Innocents
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva Cloistered Crimes 'THE INNOCENTS' In the very first minute of Anne Fontaine's The Innocents, serenity fills the screen.. .and is quickly shattered. We're in a convent chapel...
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Toward Democracy
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McGreevy, John T.
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BOOKS John T. McGreevy Keeping the Patient Alive Toward Democracy The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought James T. Kloppenberg Oxford University Press, $34.95, 912...
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The Right Wrong Man
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Spicer, Kevin P.
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Kevin P. Spicer Court Historians The Right Wrong Man John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial Lawrence Douglas Princeton University Press, $29.95, 352 pp. It is a measure of the...
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Laurus
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Peters, Nathaniel
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Nathaniel Peters Healer, Pilgrim, Holy Fool Laurus Eugene Vodolazkin translated by Lisa C. Hayden Oneworld Publications, $24.99, 384 pp. In 2013, Eugene Vodolazkin, a scholar of Old Russian...
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The Lakes
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Doyle, Brian
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LAST WORD The Lakes Brian Doyle We never admitted that the lake was terrifying, that it was a dark, alluring, fearful hole in the world, that it was more grim than serene. We never said the word...
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