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 Vol. 145 Issue 019 (December 1 2018)
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Vol. 145 Issue 020 (December 14 2018)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Continuing the conversation on Brett Kavanaugh TOO MUCH SUSPICION If I were a senator and I had had to vote for or against Brett Kavanaugh, I would have voted Nay ("Injudicious," October...
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Climate's Black Friday
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From the Editors Climate's Black Friday If you lived through historically deadly wildfires in California this fall, or catastrophic flooding and storm surges from Hurricanes Florence or Michael,...
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Don't Get Drafted
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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COLUMNISTS Mollie Wilson O'Reilly Don't Get Drafted TIME TO DROP THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS Afew days after the October 27 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, I scrolled through...
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Holding Dreamers for Ransom
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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Charles R. Morris Holding Dreamers for Ransom HOW TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION POLICY MAKES A BAD SITUATION WORSE Luis Bracamontes, an undocumented immigrant, killed two California policemen in 2014....
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'Let Church Be Church Again'
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DC, Sr. Carol Keehan
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SHORT TAKES Sr. Carol Keehan, DC 'Let Church Be Church Again' Sr. CarolKeehan, DC, recently announced her retirement after thirteen years as president and chiefexecutive officer of the Catholic...
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All of Advent
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Hamilton, Carol
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ALL OF ADVENT Again we drag out the colored lights, sing together of all the Holy births, joyous despite our deep knowledge that our steps to the Cross are foreshortened. We sense this there in the...
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'The Invention of the Antichrist'
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Pally, Marcia
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Marcia Pally 'The Invention of the Antichrist' KARL BARTH, ERICH PRZYWARA, & THE ANALOGY OF BEING In the 1920s and '30s, Karl Barth, the renowned Swiss Reformed theologian, began what became a...
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The Astronaut's Body
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Ayres, Bill
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THE ASTRONAUT'S BODY Up. Down. Words without meaning. I only know there's no need to work hard to push blood to my head, no need for these muscles, these bones. Here, they are a burden. I let...
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Has Liberalism Failed?
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Deneen, Bryan Garsten, Samuel Moyn, Matthew Sitman, Patrick J.
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SYMPOSIUM Has Liberalism Failed? An Exchange Bryan Garsten, Samuel Moyn, Matthew Sitman, Patrick J. Deneen Although there's always more than one good way to write about any book worth reviewing,...
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A Bronx Tale
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Quinn, Peter
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ESSAY A Bronx Tale Recollections of B.I.C. Peter Quinn "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native land!/ Whose heart hath ne'er...
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History Submerged
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Baumann, Paul
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TRAVEL Paul Baumann History Submerged SEE THE ORKNEYS WHILE YOU CAN In September of2003, I took a trip to Scotland with Commonweals longtime contributor and movie critic Rand Cooper. As it...
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Wildlife & Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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FILM Rand Richards Cooper Going Small 'WILDLIFE' & 'CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?' It has been a big year for the movies, and the record-breaking domestic gate receipts, which have hit $12 billion,...
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The Year of Our Lord 1943
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Sessions, David
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BOOKS David Sessions Left to Their Devices The Year of Our Lord 1943 Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis Alan Jacobs Oxford University Press, $29.95, 280 pp. In September 2016, literary...
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The Browns of California
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Sheehan, James J.
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James J. Sheehan Father, Son, Pacific Coast The Browns of California The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation Miriam Pawel Bloomsbury Publishing, $35, 496 pp. For most...
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Silicon City
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Oakes, Kaya
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Kaya Oakes The Soul of San Francisco Silicon City San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley Cary McClelland Norton, $26.95, 272 pp. We talk about what's closing. We talk about who's...
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Time Is on Our Side
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Nelson, Cassandra
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LAST WORD Time Is on Our Side Cassandra Nelson Casinos have been on my mind a lot lately, although I'm not a gambler. What I keep thinking about is the way that they're designed to make patrons...
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