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 Vol. 147 Issue 011 (December 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Transparency and transcendence BEHIND THE REORIENTATION I think that E. J. Dionne's article ("Radical, Moderate, and Necessary,” October) is among the best expositions of the...
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Biden’s first challenge
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FROM THE EDITORS Biden’s First Challenge After a rancorous and divisive campaign season, Joseph Biden was elected president by a comfortable margin, receiving nearly 80 million votes...
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A new foreign policy
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Oleynick, Griffin
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COMMENT The Georgia Runoffs The 2020 election season has further confirmed that, contrary to the old saying, all politics is now national. Hence the importance of, and attention to, Georgia’s...
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A climate president?
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Preziosi, Dominic
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A Climate President? How do you get four years back in the effort to address climate change? The answer is: you don’t. As most people have come to realize, climate change is a cumulative problem;...
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Trump can run again
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Mazewski, Matt
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COLUMN MATT MAZEWSKI Trump Can Run Again How to make sure he doesn't win in 2024 Come January, Donald Trump will no longer be president, at least not for the next four years. I include that...
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The unjustifiable bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Souva, John Schwenkler and Mark
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SHORT TAKES JOHN SCHWENKLER AND MARK SOUVA False Choices The unjustifiable bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki A train is hurtling down the tracks. Ahead of it lies a group of five people, tied...
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New life for cystic fibrosis patients
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Noval, Roberto J. De La
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SHORT TAKES ROBERTO J. DE LA NOVAL Unwrapping Lazarus New life for cystic fibrosis patients In the biblical story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead, the deceased receives a shock when he...
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How McCarrick got away with it for so long
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Gibson, David
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SHORT TAKES DAVID GIBSON The Double Agent How McCarrick got away with it for so long The Vatican’s report on the long career and serial abuses of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was finally...
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A symposium on Fratelli tutti
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Anda, Charles Taylor, William T. Cavanaugh, Vinson Cunningham, Neomi De
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Freedom & Equality Aren’t Enough A symposium on ‘Fratelli Tutti’ In October Pope Francis issued his third and likely final encyclical, Fratelli tutti (“Brothers All”). Its themes are “fraternity...
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“Marketâ€
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Leopold, Nikia
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POETRY MARKET Nikia Leopold An old woman moves toward me, using her cart as a walker, head hunched into fragile shoulders. I see her often here, respect her painful travel through the...
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Bishop John England’s complicated legacy
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Lakeland, Paul
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ARTICLE Ahead of His Time— And Behind It Paul Lakeland The complicated legacy of Bishop John England Amid all the heart-searching that the Catholic Church is doing in response to the ongoing...
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W. H. Auden and the post-Christmas blues
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Reimer, Jeff
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ARTICLE What Comes After Jeff Reimer W.H. Auden’s cure for the post-Christmas blues In 1941 W. H. Auden began writing the text for what would eventually become For the Time Being: A Christmas...
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“Inside a Pearlâ€
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Brackett, Judy
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POETRY INSIDE A PEARL Judy Brackett She swallows a pearl uncultured it is so is she inside the pearl sleeps mustard seed or a babe’s clipped nail or a kitten’s eyelash or something else...
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Frank Pasquale
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Joseph, Lawrence
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INTERVIEW An interview with Frank Pasquale What Robots Can't Do And what they shouldn't Lawrence Joseph In the twenty-first century, technology radically affects the lives of everyone on the...
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Vida Americana
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Oleynick, Griffin
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ARTS GRIFFIN OLEYNICK Walls That Crossed Borders 'Vida Americana' La Malinche, or Malintzin in her native Nahuatl, is one of the most fraught figures in Mexican history. How you see her depends...
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Christmas Critics
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Preziosi, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Burke Nixon, Katie Daniels, and Dominic
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BOOKS Christmas Critics KIRSTIN VALDEZ QUADE In March, as the terrible wave of sickness and loss gathered its forces and crashed down on us, as trips were canceled and my classes went online, and...
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“Dear Shadowâ€
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Linstrom, John
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POETRY DEAR SHADOW John Linstrom It is long since we talked, since we walked the Hudson like we used to. Long since the rabbits in the bushes watched us darkly as we hopped together, you...
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Hotly in Pursuit of the Real
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Russello, Gerald J.
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BOOKS Can't Explain GERALD J. RUSSELLO HOTLY IN PURSUIT OF THE REAL Notes Toward a Memoir Ron Hansen Slant $32 | 198 pp. In his recent book, Longing for an Absent God, Nick Ripatra-zone...
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Roots and reality
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Thompson, Clifford
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LAST WORD CLIFFORD THOMPSON Roots and Reality I have thought a lot about a concept I call rootedness, which seems to me a fundamental human need. Being rooted in something—whether a community, a...
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