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 Vol. 145 Issue 012 (July 6 2018)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Bad metaphysics, overheard at Hardee's, etc. HOPE WITHOUT OPTIMISM Thank you for Gary Gutting's careful reflection on Stephen Pinker's detailed book ("Is Ours the Best World Ever?" May...
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Shameful & Shameless
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From the Editors Shameful & Shameless On April 6, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration was implementing a "zero-tolerance" policy toward people caught entering...
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Editor's Notebook
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Baumann, Paul
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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Paul Baumann A Farewell Note MY THREE DECADES AT COMMONWEAL After twenty-eight years at Commonweal, fifteen as editor, I will be stepping aside after this issue. I am...
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Border Blame Game
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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COLUMNISTS Mollie Wilson O'Reilly Border Blame Game TRUMP DOESN'T WANT CREDIT FOR HIS CRUELTY Since President Donald Trump took office, the news on the immigration beat has been a horrifying...
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Choking on Growth
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McGowan, Jo
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Jo McGowan Choking on Growth INDIA'S AIR-QUALITY CRISIS Itravel to Delhi often and one trip blurs into the other. But this past winter was unusual. All through November and December, friends at...
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A Gentile's Philip Roth
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Miles, Jack
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SHORT TAKES Jack Miles A Gentile's Philip Roth WHAT THE NOVELIST HAD IN COMMON WITH ST. AUGUSTINE AJewish friend once told me, "Philip Roth is writing the story of my life. I wait for each new...
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Cambodia Diaries
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Griffiths, Paul J.
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Paul J. Griffiths Cambodia Diaries On March 12 I spend most of the day at Tuol Sleng, also known as S-21, in Phnom Penh. This is the principal place where the Khmer Rouge interrogated and tortured...
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'A Party of Friends'
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Michael, David J.
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'A Party of Friends' What Swedish Weddings Get Right David J. Michael If the summers of my youth were spent playing baseball and swimming, the summers of my twenties and thirties have been spent...
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Kenosis
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Poreba, Elizabeth
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KENOSIS Look at the rock cut to carve the highway and see the history of its making — molten rivers molded appearing frozen while working out their next dissolution, replenishing plenitude apparent...
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Social Justice Warrior
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Meyers, Arthur S.
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Social Justice Warrior The Legacy of John A. Ryan Arthur S. Meyers Blunt, practical, far-sighted, courageous, widely read, boring teacher to some, ACLU board member in the 1920s, Commonweal...
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Saving Adam
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Farrell, John
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Saving Adam Evolution & Original Sin John Farrell In spite of general assertions by the last three popes that belief in creation is not incompatible with evolution, Darwin continues to pose a...
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Fugitive Truths
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Giraldi, William
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BOOK ESSAY Fugitive Truths The Fictional West of Thomas McGuane William Giraldi Cloudbursts Collected and New Stories Thomas McGuane Penguin Random House, $35, 576 pp. For the past five...
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Unearthing
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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SHORT STORY Unearthing Rand Richards Cooper On his seventy-seventh birthday, Dan Slattery drove to Hartford to spend the day with his son. The get-together was a trip down memory lane: Hartford...
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Conversation with Messiaen
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O'Siadhail, Micheal
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POETRY CONVERSATION WITH MESSIAEN Micheal O'Siadhail I hear the bells and singing stained glass birds As, Olivier Messiaen, you shift the scale Of chirps from semitones to tones or thirds For...
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Westworld
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Wren, Celia
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TELEVISION Celia Wren Violent Delights HBO'S 'WESTWORLD' Philosophy and theology professors around the world are surely drafting syllabi based on West-world, the HBO sci-fi epic about robots in...
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First Reformed
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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FILM Rand Richards Cooper God's Lonely Man 'FIRST REFORMED' Delving into the spiritual crisis of a country parson, First Reformed strives to chart some shape of redemption on a grid of grief,...
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See What Can Be Done
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Sayers, Valerie
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BOOKS Valerie Sayers Let's Get Critical See What Can Be Done Essays, Criticism, and Commentary Lorrie Moore Knopf, $29.95, 407 pp. The enticement of the short essay, especially the review, is...
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The Only Story
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Boyagoda, Randy
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Randy Boyagoda Sweet Nothings The Only Story Julian Barnes Knopf, $25.95, 272 pp. If there's a bookstore in the afterlife, Geoffrey Chaucer would probably pick up a copy of Julian Barnes's new...
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The Evangelicals
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Dochuk, Darren
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Darren Dochuk Monarchists at Heart? The Evangelicals The Struggle to Shape America Frances FitzGerald Simon & Schuster, $35, 752 pp. It is monumental, accounting for 350 years in 750 pages,...
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The Changeling
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Domestico, Anthony
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Anthony Doméstico The Wildness of God The Changeling Joy Williams Tin House, $19.95, 336 pp. Joy Williams's The Changeling belongs on the same shelf as Mari-lynne Robinson's Housekeeping and...
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Sunrise, with Motherly Influence
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Linstrom, John
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SUNRISE, WITH MOTHERLY INFLUENCE My mac & cheese has plasticized overnight; the fluorescent light's too bright as I set the noisy coffee pot. I'm sipping bitter blackness by the window after...
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Jane Kenyon's Peonies
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Knepper, Steven
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LAST WORD Jane Kenyon's Peonies Steven Knepper n 1975, Jane Kenyon encouraged her husband Donald Hall to leave his professorship at the University of Michigan and move to Eagle Pond, his...
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