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 Vol. 146 Issue 014 (September 1 2019)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS The bishops and sex abuse, Catholics on the margins & more BISHOPS CAN'T HIDE In "Why the 'Metropolitan Plan' Doesn't Work" (August 9), Rita Ferrone writes, "The now-glaring weakness of...
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Why not think big?
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FROM THE EDITORS Why Not Think Big? It's almost half a century since scientists at Exxon (now ExxonMobil) determined that the burning of fossil fuels posed potentially catastrophic dangers to the...
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'National conservatism'/The Hong Kong protests/'Thoughts and prayers'
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Lucky, Matthew Sitman/Nicole-Ann Lobo/Katherine
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'National Conservatism' E ver since Donald Trump came down the escalator of Trump Tower and called Mexican immigrants rapists, conservative intellectuals have struggled with how to respond. His...
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The Greta Thunberg phenomenon
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Ferrone, Rita
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RITA FERRONE Theater or Prophecy? It isn't enough for adults to applaud Greta Thunberg. They have their own work to do, and sacrifices to make. All eyes have been on Greta Thunberg, the...
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Clarence Thomas's attack on the media
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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MOLLIE WILSON O'REILLY When the News Isn't Fake Clarence Thomas's attack on the media is more than obtuse; it is irresponsible and dangerous. I learned about the case of Curtis Flowers, a black...
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Remembering Daniel Callahan
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Steinfels, Peter
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PETER STEINFELS Uncommon Clarity Remembering Daniel Callahan (1930-2019) D aniel Callahan never stopped asking hard questions. The week before he died, on July 16, two days before his...
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Elected by a minority
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Switanek, Nick
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NICK SWITANEK Minority Rule Not a single U.S. senator was elected by a majority of eligible voters. That needs to change. O n a wide range of issues, such as taxing the wealthy, infrastructure...
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Quebec's Bill 21
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Higgins, Michael W.
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MICHAEL W. HIGGINS A Surrogate Creed Quebec's Bill 21 truncates religious freedom in the name of laicite. I t wasn't supposed to happen, but happen it did. Having thrown off the shackles of...
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Beyond the politics of abortion
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Anonymous
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ANONYMOUS My Two Abortions I never thought it would happen again. Then it did. S ome years ago, after I had converted to Christianity and become a Catholic, I had an abortion. I know the term...
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City prayers
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McClay, B. D.
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B. D. MCCLAY Small Graces Big cities can breed indifference. Prayer helps us resist it. n the Tyburn Convent, on the north side of London, the nuns pray for people all night. This practice is...
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Divorce, annulment & communion
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Hart, David Bentley
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An Orthodox theologian on the controversy still rocking the Roman Catholic Church Divorce, Annulment & Communion David Bentley Hart As I am not a Roman Catholic, I cannot pretend to have any...
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Last letters from a Nazi prison
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Moltke, Helmuth and Freya von
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Standing in the Light The clandestine correspondence of Helmuth and Freya von Moltke Freya and Helmuth James von Moltke are thirty-three and thirty-seven years old as we meet them in late...
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"A Constellation of Stones"
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Fowlkes, Vernon Jr.
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POETRY A CONSTELLATION OF STONES Block Island, RI In the bright morning sun of this other life three swans lift with your delight into the cool air above Sachem Pond. Here, even your eyes...
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Mexico City's chinampas
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Sorrentino, Joseph
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Can the Chinampas Survive? Joseph Sorrentino Pollution and urban sprawl threaten Mexico City s floating gardens. Marino Gonzalez Galicia stands at the edge of a small concrete loading dock,...
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"The Eft"
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Wiman, Christian
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THE EFT Christian Wiman Not nothingness but too many meanings as of a creature under siege. First the basement floods the first day of the year and instead of making love we make rage. Then...
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My life in a 1950s novitiate
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Prejean, Helen
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Boot Camp for Nuns Sr. Helen Prejean The harsh disciplines and surprising tenderness of a 1950s novitiate At the close of the evening meal I'm performing what our Holy Rule calls a "practice of...
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Civil conflict in the age of Trump
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Kloppenberg, James T.
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How should democracies deal with irreconcilable differences? Hope Against Hype James T. Kloppenberg HEALTHY CONFLICT IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SOCIETY From Enemy to Adversary JASON A. SPRINGS...
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The video art of Bill Viola
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Oleynick, Griffin
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GRIFFIN OLEYNICK Play, Memory The video art of Bill Viola H ow do you see something that's not there? It's a question that Bill Viola, one of the world's leading video artists, frequently poses....
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'Echo in the Canyon' & 'Yesterday'
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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RAND RICHARDS COOPER What's That Sound? 'Echo in the Canyon' & 'Yesterday' E cho in the Canyon refers to a hilly Los Angeles neighborhood whose winding roads link Sunset Boulevard to the San...
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The Irony of Modern Catholic History
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Chappel, James
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Out of Touch JAMES CHAPPEL THE IRONY OF MODERN CATHOLIC HISTORY How the Church Rediscovered Itself & Challenged the Modern World to Reform GEORGE WEIGEL Basic Books $30 | 336 pp. T he pope is...
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The 21
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Philpott, Daniel
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Ready for the Worst DANIEL PHILPOTT THE 21 A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs MARTIN MOSEBACH Plough Publishing House $26 | 272 pp. I t is only natural that a journalist would jump at...
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Working
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Moses, Paul
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Reporting the Past PAUL MOSES WORKING Researching, Interviewing, Writing ROBERT A. CARO Knopf $25 | 240 pp. S ince I took only one journalism course in college, I had a lot of catching up to...
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Books in Brief
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BOOKS IN BRIEF THE PREACHER'S WIFE KATE BOWLER Princeton, $29.95, 368 pp. THE DRY HEART NATALIA GINZBURG New Directions, $12.95, 96 pp. TALKING TO ROBOTS DAVID EWING DUNCAN Dutton, $29, 320...
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Little Boy
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Oakes, Kaya
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Last of the Beats KAYA OAKES L awrence Ferlinghetti's one hundredth birthday in March was the occasion for a lot of celebration in San Francisco. Perhaps trying to counter its image as an...
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A command performance
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Barry, Dan
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Command Performance DAN BARRY First we removed our shoes. We aligned them neatly along the hallway wall, applying meaningless order to the moment.Then we gave our apologetic knock. A friend of our...
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