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Vol. 147 Issue 007 (July 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Letters
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LETTERS Pascal & the magisterium THE 'THINKING CATHOLIC' Paul J. Griffiths's "Under Pressure" (May) reintroduced me to a controversy that has long engaged my thinking. The struggle between Blaise...
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‘Care, not cops’
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FROM THE EDITORS cCare3 Not Cops’ Since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 and the nationwide demonstrations that followed, protesters and activists have focused attention on...
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Protecting DREAMers
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Lucky, Katherine
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COMMENT Disrupting the College Experience Last month, after Cambridge University announced that all its student lectures would be online until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, Silicon...
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MAGA’d to death
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Preziosi, Dominic
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MAGA'd to Death Gratifying as it can be to see a braggart brought low, it’s best to note Donald Trump’s whimper of a rally in Tulsa and sliding poll numbers with only the passing mention they...
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Connected by coronavirus
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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COLUMNS CATHLEEN KAVENY Blurring Boundaries The coronavirus reminds us that all of nature is connected. The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically changed the way Americans live, both...
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The debate about lockdown measures
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Mazewski, Matt
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COLUMNS MATT MAZEWSKI Your Money or Your Life What the debate about lockdown measures gets wrong On the May 13 episode of the daytime talk show The View, one of the “hot topics” taken up by the...
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Catholics and the 1918 influenza
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Moses, Paul
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SHORT TAKES PAUL MOSES Denialism Is Nothing New How some Catholics chafed against the 1918 influenza restrictions As the 1918 influenza epidemic was peaking in New York City in the fall of that...
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What the experts can’t tell us
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Cloutier, David
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SHORT TAKES DAVID CLOUTIER What the Experts Can't Tell Us In the face of uncertainty, our leaders need prudence. Back to normal by August? By fall? Whenever a vaccine is ready? Who can tell us?...
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Moving toward racial justice
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Copeland, M. Shawn
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SHORT TAKES M. SHAWN COPELAND Breath & Fire The Spirit moves us toward racial justice. Pentecost came early this year: divine ruah broke through the walls of our here-and-now, interrupting...
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“The Time That’s In Itâ€
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Siadhail, Micheal O’
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POETRY THE TIME THAT’S IN IT Mi cheat O’Siadhail No, we do not own our mother sphere, We, whose role is steward and leasee, In our greed are still so cavalier Sundering our own nature’s...
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Bad traditionalism
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Burton, Tara Isabella
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ARTICLE Bad Traditionalism Tara Isabella Burton How I argued myself into a disastrous engagement, and how I escaped The first time I got engaged, I did so because the alternative seemed worse....
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Drinking alone
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Malesic, Jonathan
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ARTICLE Drinking Alone Jonathan Malesic Moving to a Rust Belt town taught me that real solidarity is harder than it looks. One night in August 2005, just after I’d moved to Wilkes-Barre,...
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How to write about depression
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Sitman, Matthew
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ARTICLE Muddling Through Matthew Sitman A depression memoir like no other HOW TO BE DEPRESSED GEORGE SCIALABBA University of Pennsylvania Press $27.50 | 224 pp. As I read George Scialabba’s...
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Bryan Massingale
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Munch, Regina
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INTERVIEW ‘Worship of a False God' An interview with Bryan Massingale Regina Munch Fr. Bryan Massingale is a professor of theology at Fordham University and the author 0/Racial Justice and the...
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“Face to Faceâ€
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Klug, Nate
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POETRY FACE TO FACE For Zoe May Nate Klug You first-time snorkeler head burrowed, missing much riveted to the fact of water You literal, now, assemblage of old hopes hope can sharpen...
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Patio
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Sayers, Valerie
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FICTION Patio Valerie Sayers In these scary times, I try to remember the exercises we did as young actors to control the anxiety, to keep us in the here-and-now. I plant my feet beneath my hips,...
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“Familyâ€
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Leopold, Nikia
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POETRY FAMILY Nikia Leopold Walls of narrow streets were neighbors, facing windows borrowing light, shade. From our balcony I noticed a bowl of fruit emptying, filling on the table opposite....
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On Not Being Someone Else
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Jensen, Morten Høi
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BOOKS What Might Have Been MORTEN HOI JENSEN ON NOT BEING SOMEONE ELSE Tales of Our Unled Lives ANDREW H. MILLER Harvard University Press $29.95 | 232 pp. Theodor Fontane’s great novel Effi...
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The Romance of American Communism
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Gold, Hannah
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BOOKS Life of the Party HANNAH GOLD THE ROMANCE OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM VIVIAN GORNICI Verso $13.96 | 288 pp. Reading Vivian Gornick’s The Romance of American Communism for the second time in...
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Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
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Pasquale, Frank
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BOOKS Socialism or Feudalism FRANK PASQUALE CAPITAL AND IDEOLOGY THOMAS Pit ETTY Harvard University Press $39.95 11104 pp. The most comforting narrative of contemporary economics is a story...
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Escalante’s Dream by David Roberts
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Beer, Jeremy
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BOOKS The Black Legend Lives JEREMY BEER ESCALANTE’S DREAM On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest DAVID ROBERTS W. W. Norton $26.95 | 360 pp. Almost a hundred years ago,...
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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
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Bernhoft, Iain
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BOOKS Whatrs in the Dirt IAIN BERNHOFT THE NICKEL BOYS COLSON WHITEHEAD Doubleday $19.99 | 210 pp. 41 he dirt looked wrong.” So begins The Nickel Boys, the latest Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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Faith and Science at Notre Dame
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Farrell, John
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BOOKS Immune to Science JOHN FARRELL FAITH AND SCIENCE AT NOTRE DAME John Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic Church JOHN P. SLATTERY University of Notre Dame Press $27 | 292 pp. John P....
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My Mother’s House
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Lobo, Nicole-Ann
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BOOKS Seeing the Expendable NICOLE-ANN LOBO MY MOTHER'S HOUSE FRANCESCA MOMPLAISIR Knopf $26.95 1304 pp. The Kreydl phrase kay manman mwen translates in English to “my mother’s house,” which...
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Critic’S Notebook
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Boyagoda, Randy
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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK Donnafugata Dilemmas Randy Boyagoda Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s 1958 novel The Leopard fooled me twice when I recently read it. First, I thought what mattered most about the...
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The legacy of peaceful protests
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Killian, Ann
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LAST WORD No Justice., No Peace ANN KILLIAN Peaceful protest”—these words dominated headlines as thousands of American citizens took to the streets in cities across the country demanding justice...
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Closing Shot
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Roberson, Lamont
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CLOSING SHOT SCENE FROM A PROTEST Lamont Roberson, 2020 I took this photo in early June as hundreds of people gathered at City Hall in Santa Clarita, California, to peacefully protest racist...
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