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 Vol. 144 Issue 018 (November 10 2017)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Letters Tone Deaf or Bigoted? Lamenting the Lamentations The recent Commonweal editorial, "Bad Faith?" (October 6) only compounds the confusion it seeks to clarify. The editorial addressed the...
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Sacred Things
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From the Editors Sacred Things In his heartfelt October 19 lament to the White House press corps, White House Chief of StaffJohn Kelly got many things wrong, but he was not wrong about how little...
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A Tale of Two Cities' Doctors
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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COLUMNISTS Charles R. Morris A Tale of Two Cities’ Doctors A CASE STUDY IN KEEPING HEALTH-CARE COSTS DOWN Atul Gawande, a splendid New Yorker author who is also a practicing surgeon, wrote an...
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Resistance, Then & Now
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McGowan, Jo
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Jo McGowan Resistance, Then & Now DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR MORE THAN DESPERATION As if real life beneath Donald Trump’s two flat feet weren’t depressing enough—as if coping with this...
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Caught in Between
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Ramos, Santiago
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SHORT TAKE Santiago Ramos Caught in Between CHRISTIANS IN THE HOLY LAND «T don’t know anymore who is right and who is wrong.” I was talking with a Palestinian man from Jerusalem, about a...
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Beyond Identity?
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Sitman, Philip Gorski, Susan McWilliams, Peter Steinfels, Matthew
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ARTICLES Beyond Identity? Mark Lilla & the Crisis of Liberalism Philip Gorski, Susan McWilliam, Peter Steinfels, Matthew Sitman Philip Gorski The failure of liberal politics is caused by the...
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Intelligible Mysteries
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Domestico, Anthony
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Intelligible Mysteries Theology & Modernist Literature Anthony Domestico In The Lives of the Poets, Samuel Johnson warned against mixing theology and literature, claiming that “the ideas of...
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Breaking Ground
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Furlong, Tom
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BREAKING GROUND The earth floats stones to the surface in spring to gawk at the moon and the stars and the sun like skulls that are strewn in the Valley of Bones, the sockets whistling with songs...
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Breaking the News
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Horwitz, Paul
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Breaking the News Journalism & Democracy in the Age of Big Tech Paul Horwitz Almost a century ago, Walter Lippmann wrote, “In an exact sense the present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in...
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Blade Runner 2049 & Ex Libris
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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FILM Rand Richards Cooper Gloom- Struck 'BLADE RUNNER 2049' & 'EX LIBRIS' It’s been thirty-five years since Ridley Scott made Blade Runner, his tale of an android-killing bounty hunter set in...
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A Plague of Snakes Transfigured
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Baumann, Paul
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ART Paul Baumann A Plague of Snakes Transfigured CRISTOBAL DE VILLALPANDO AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART up rom Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace” was the headline for the New York...
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What Happened
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Tentler, Leslie
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BOOKS Leslie Tentler Why Don’t They Like Her? What Happened Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster, $30, 512 pp. We had dinner guests not long ago, one of whom noticed my copy of What Happened...
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The Cold War
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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Andrew J. Bacevich Hardly a Triumph The Cold War A World History Odd Arne Westad Basic Books, $40, 720 pp. Born and raised in Norway, Odd Arne Westad is a prize-winning historian, who now...
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The Ninth Hour
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly Nothing to Be Done? The Ninth Hour Alice McDermott Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 256 pp. « A woman’s life is a blood sacrifice,” Sr. Lucy tells Sally, the teenager...
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A Legacy of Spies by John le Carre
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Powers, Katherine A.
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Katherine A. Powers After the Thaw A Legacy of Spies John le Carre' Viking, $28, 111 pp. In his 2012 introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John...
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
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Jeffery, Peter
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Peter Jeffery Tradition You Can Hold Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World Christopher de Hamel Penguin Press, $45, 640 pp. Gutenberg invented the...
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Why the Doily?
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Nelson, Cassandra
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LAST WORD Why the Doily? Cassandra Nelson Human virtue, according to Aristotle, is found somewhere in the middle ground between two extremes. For the virtue of courage in particular—which...
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Letter to Belmont
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Murphy, Timothy
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LETTER TO BELMONT i.m. Richard Wilbur Master, I reread Monsour’s “Burrowing Bees” and learned today you’re in a nursing home far from the Berkshire woods you used to roam. I hope you have a view...
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