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 Vol. 147 Issue 009 (October 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Drinking alone and together A GOOD LIFE I recently read Jonathan Malesic's essay "Drinking Alone.” (Disclosure: I know Jon personally and teach at his former institution.) While I do not...
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The worst president
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FROM THE EDITORS The Worst What actually motivates us to vote in presidential elections, other than a sense of duty? The answer depends on the election. Once in a while, we have the luxury of...
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Vaccine politics
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Daniels, Katie
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COMMENT Ruth Bader Ginsburg On the afternoon of September 19, a couple of dozen people gathered outside a Brooklyn apartment building, eyes raised to the top-floor fire escape. Music came from a...
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Russia’s toxic behavior
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Preziosi, Dominic
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Russia's Toxic Behavior It was clear when Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny fell critically ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow in August that he was not drunk or hypoglycemic or...
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Reopening Catholic schools
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Reilly, Mollie Wilson O’
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COLUMN Don't Use Catholic Schools to Shame Public Ones The truth is, we're all struggling to cope. MOLLIE WILSON O'REILLY This fall, at long last, my dream is coming true: my youngest child is...
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Idolatry at the RNC
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Peppard, Michael
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SHORT TAKES MICHAEL PEPPARD Old Glory to God Mike Pence's idolatrous RNC speech On September 24, 1789, the Conference Committee of the United States Congress, chaired by James Madison, concluded...
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Griever-in-Chief
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Moses, Paul; Connor, Michael
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SHORT TAKES PAUL MOSES & MICHAEL CONNOR Griever-in-Chief Redemption & suffering in Joe Biden's eulogies Joe Biden has been dubbed “King of the Eulogy” and the “Designated Mourner.” He’s...
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How progressives win in rural America
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Mayville, Luke
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SHORT TAKES LUKE MAYVILLE Do Something Big How progressives win in rural America Last month, Missourians approved a constitutional amendment to expand their Medicaid program and extend...
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The crisis in Amazonia
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SJ, Bryan P. Galligan
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SHORT TAKES BRYAN P. GALLIGAN, SJ Teetering on the Edge A year after the Amazon Synod, the crisis in Amazonia continues. The Amazon Synod’s final document and Pope Francis’s post-synodal...
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The West Coast wildfires
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Lucky, Katherine
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SHORT TAKES KATHERINE LUCKY A New Fact of Life The West Coast wildfires The West Coast wildfires of the past few weeks are unprecedented in number and scale. In California, more than five...
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“Math Drillsâ€
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Menon, Uma
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POETRY MATH DRILLS Uma Menon In Friday’s class, we expand binomials into gasps— meaning we calculate trajectories of moving objects & analyze the chances of touching death, then living...
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Social Catholicism and the 2020 election
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Dionne, E. J. Jr.
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ARTICLE Radical, Moderate, and Necessary E. J. Dionne Jr. Social Catholicism must rise to the task of our perilous moment. Catholicism is underperforming in American public life. Its social...
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The case against Myanmar
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Saunders, Paul C.
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Can a Lawsuit Stop a Genocide? Paul C. Saunders The case against Myanmar On January 23, 2020, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, informally known as the World Court, rendered a...
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Adrian Vermeule’s integralism
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Blakely, Jason
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ARTICLE Not Catholic Enough Jason Blakely The integralism of Adrian Vermeule Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule has lately become an intellectual celebrity among reactionary Catholics in the...
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Savers and unloaders
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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ARTICLE Savers and Unloaders Rand Richards Cooper On getting your things in order Like many Americans fortunate enough to remain healthy while working and attending school remotely, the Cooper...
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“Sharkâ€
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Cadnum, Michael
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POETRY SHARK Michael Cadnum Sleep is a search. Waking is a wound. Did I say your name? Here, I catch and close again warm as the abyss. My skin is sandstone, my teeth the law. These...
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Robert P. Jones
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Munch, Regina
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INTERVIEW An interview with Robert P. Jones Baptizing White Supremacy Regina Munch Robert P Jones is the CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and writes regularly on...
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“October, Fallingâ€
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Cooley, Peter
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POETRY OCTOBER, FALLING For Jacqueline Cooley, 1944-2018 Peter Cooley Last night the trees changed color while I slept. One moment at my window: a new world. Love, do you continue transmuting...
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The Bad Side of Books
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Scialabba, George
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BOOKS The Arch-Heretic GEORGE SCIALABBA THE BAD SIDE OF BOOKS Selected Essays d. h. lawrence edited by geoff dyer New York Review Books $19.95 | 512 pp. T. S. Eliot wrote of Henry James: “He...
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State of War
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Baldelomar, César J.
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BOOKS Zero Tolerance, Zero Progress CESAR J. BALDELOMAR STATE OF WAR MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence william wheeler Columbia Global Reports $15.99 | 150 pp. For most people in the...
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Books in Brief
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BOOKS BOOKS IN BRIEF THE AGE OF INFIDELITY AND OTHER STORIES valerie sayers Slant Books $16 | 146 pp. Grandparents in hiding. A child born with an extra set of teeth. Hyper-surveillance devices...
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A Woman Called Moses
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Leonard-Fleckman, Mahri
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BOOKS A Prophet Unarmed MAHRI LEONARD-FLECKMAN A WOMAN CALLED MOSES A Prophet for Our Times jean-christophe attias Translated by Gregory Elliott Verso $27.95 | 224 pp. Jean-Christophe...
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A New World Begins
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Bradatan, Costica
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BOOKS Sailing Without Ballast COSTICA BRADATAN A NEW WORLD BEGINS The History of the French Revolution jeremy d. popkin Basic Books $35 | 640 pp. saw, with pain, that you are persuaded that...
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Pirates
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Munch, Regina
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BOOKS The Cut of Their Jib REGINA MUNCH PIRATES A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders peter lehr Yale University Press $30 | 272 pp. Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has...
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David Jones’s ‘Crucifixion’
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Powell, E. R.
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ARTS E. R. POWELL The Suspended Beauty of the Cross David Jones's 'Crucifixion' In her collection of aphorisms titled “Attention and Will,” Simone Weil writes of the “method for understanding...
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Third-culture kid
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Miller, Eric
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LAST WORD A Third-Culture Kid ERIC MILLER They called me Erico, my Brazilian friends. And that’s who I, as a teenager, became, living with my family in the center of South America for four years...
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