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IssueVol. 145 Issue 007 (April 13 2018)
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Paid articleLetters
LETTERS Hart's translation, financial clericalism, etc. catastrophically wrong My thanks to Luke Timothy Johnson for his generally benign review of my translation of the New Testament ("No...
Paid articleStriking for Survival
From the Editors Striking for Survival Nearly three decades ago, the labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan determined it had become "insane" for American workers to go on strike. Observing the weakening...
Paid articleSleepwalking into Disaster
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Sleepwalking into Disaster LESSONS FROM WORLD WAR I One hundred years ago, in the spring of 1918, the Germans unleashed six-thousand artillery pieces and...
Paid articleSign Me Up
Ferrone, Rita
Rita Ferrone Sign Me Up EASTER IS A BEGINNING, NOT AN ENDING In the scriptures the number fifty is a mystical number. It is associated with deliverance. The jubilee year, described in the Book of...
Paid articleGet Rid of the Clergy
Holland, Joe
CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION Joe Holland Get Rid of the Clergy BUT KEEP HOLY ORDERS In their fascinating exchange on the clergy ("Imagine There's No Clergy," Commonweal, January 15), William M....
Paid articleCheating Death
McDonough, Mary
SHORT TAKE Mary McDonough Cheating Death THE PERILS OF ANTI-AGING RESEARCH Jesus revolutionized the meaning of dying. For Christians everywhere, the dawn of Easter morning reminds us of his...
Paid article'Constant in the Struggle'
Jordan, Patrick
ARTICLES 'Constant in the Struggle' The Life & Writing of John Garvey Patrick Jordan For over four decades, John Garvey (1944-2015) was Commonweal's "elemental" columnist. Under the title "Of...
Paid articleOtter
Cadnum, Michael
OTTER I shine like a hairless fish, or a tongue, but this is my pelt, enclosing a secret's cunning— winters in dark surf have given me the silhouette of a wave rising or just-spent, and the cold...
Paid articleThe Dead End of the Left?
Lancellotti, Carlo
The Dead End of the Left? Augusto Del Noce's Critique of Modern Politics Carlo Lancellotti In the Summer of 1969, while Europe was still in the turmoil of the student rebellion that had started...
Paid articleNone of Us Faces Judgment Alone
Oleynick, Griffin
ART Griffin Oleynick None of Us Faces Judgment Alone 'ZURBARAN'S JACOB AND HIS TWELVE SONS' AT THE FRICK With the arrival of the Easter season, we might be tempted to cast a backward glance at...
Paid articleThe Growth Delusion
MORRIS, CHARLES R.
BOOKS Charles R. Morris Gross Distortion The Growth Delusion Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations David Pilling Tim Duggan Books, $26, 304 pp. David Pilling is a widely traveled...
Paid articleDevotions
Domestico, Anthony
Anthony Domestico A Hard-Earned Detachment Devotions Timothy Murphy North Dakota State University, $24.95, 192 pp. The poet Timothy Murphy's new collection, Devotions, begins with a trip to...
Paid articleGoodness & Greatness
Whelan, Patrick
LAST WORD Goodness & Greatness Patrick Whelan Last June, when President Donald Trump met President Vladimir Putin for the first time, much was made of the parallels between the two leaders. Along...
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