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Vol. 148 Issue 009 (October 1 2021)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Letters
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Unpacking the interwar years LESS THAN A LOVE FEST Regarding the interview with John Ghazvinian (“Iran and America,” June 2021), I would like to draw attention to the interwar years of 1919 to...
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Reckoning with Guantánamo
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Reckoning with Guantánamo Nearly eight hundred people have passed through the Guantánamo Bay prison camp since the United States opened it in January 2002. Twenty years after 9/11 and more than a...
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Travesty in Texas
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Sitman, Matthew
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The Vaccine Mandate On September 9, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would be requiring vaccination for all federal workers and contractors, and for health-care workers...
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Botching Biden's agenda
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Munch, Regina
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Botching Biden’s Agenda The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budgetreconciliation bill is now under consideration in Congress. A key piece of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, the Build Back...
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Persuading anti-vaxxers
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Peppard, Michael
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Persuading Anti-vaxxers Let’s start with better analogies. How is Obamacare like eating broccoli? Or how is a virtuoso violinist like an unplanned pregnancy? If you’ve taken a philosophy class or...
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Letter from Italy
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Faggioli, Massimo
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Hope & Hesitancy Letter from Italy Returning to Italy to see family after a two-year hiatus made clear to me how far apart Europe and the United States have grown. In the summer of 2021,...
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The unfinished work of Vatican II
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Francis, Pope
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‘Always Together’ The unfinished work of Vatican II The following essay is adapted from the pope’s preface to Fraternità—segno dei tempi: il magistero sociale di Papa Francesco by Cardinal...
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The 'forever war'
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Bacevich, Andrew
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The Forever War Continues Biden should rescind the Carter Doctrine. Earlier this year, when President Biden announced his intention “to end this forever war,” he was referring specifically to...
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"After Showers"
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Rybicki, Stephen
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AFTER SHOWERS (“To see a World in a Grain of Sand,” William Blake) Stephen Rybicki Within that single droplet of rain (a loupe is needed) Hanging precariously for the moment at the very tip...
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Scrapping the color code
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Sleeper, Jim
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Scrapping the Color Code Jim Sleeper A post-racial America is inevitable. Even as the murder of George Floyd unleashed a deluge of declamations about white supremacy, wokeness, critical race...
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Extraterrestrial encounters
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Ramos, Santiago
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First Contact Santiago Ramos What would we have to fear—or learn—from an encounter with extraterrestrials? Three years ago, the Pentagon released a pair of videos featuring diamond- and...
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'Humane' warfare
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Klay, Phil
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‘Sops to Humanity’ Phil Klay How a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself In 2016, on the eve of a historic peace treaty between Communist guerrillas and the Colombian...
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"The New World"
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Carelli, Anthony
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THE NEW WORLD Anthony Carelli It’s true: Pilgrim, for you it may be that nothing happens anymore. That life is this going on all around you all the time and nothing else. That this land is...
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The other Afghanistan
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Daryani, Solmaz
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The Other Afghanistan Images from beyond the battlefield SOLMAZ DARYANI Since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan twenty years ago, most of the Western discussion about the country has had to do...
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"Monks"
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Chapman, Danielle
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MONKS Danielle Chapman I’ve met one named Phoenix Jiránek, ringleted and effusing “contuition” as gaily as a Franciscan in a boat eating honeycakes with an angel. Thus the Lord showed me both...
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David Neuhaus, SJ
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Frankovich, Nicholas
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Arab Christians in the Holy Land A conversation with David Neuhaus, SJ Nicholas Frankovich Fr. David Neuhaus, SJ, the superior of the Jesuit community in the Holy Land, has taught Scripture at...
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Follow Your Conscience
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PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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Internal Affairs BERNARD G. PRUSAK “Conscience” has a suggestive but also enigmatic etymology. It is “knowledge with”— but with whom? One answer is simply: with ourselves. In conscience, we...
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The Gospels
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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Too Original LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON Sarah Ruden is a translator of ancient literature with considerable experience and a good reputation. She has translated from the Latin Augustine’s Confessions,...
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Up to Heaven and Down to Hell
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Olmstead, Gracy
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Yours, Mine, or Ours GRACY OLMSTEAD “How the world is named and narrated,” writes Dr. Norman Wirzba in his book From Nature to Creation, “is of the greatest theoretical and...
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Antiquities
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Wilson, Benjamin
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The Way of the WASP BENJAMIN WILSON At the close of the nineteenth century, a cache of papyri and ostraca began to circulate within the burgeoning, semi-legitimate market for antiquities....
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The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz
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Mesmer, Sharon
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Silence & Contradiction SHARON MESMER Twenty years ago, I visited the Convento de San Miguel in Úbeda, where Spanish poet San Juan de la Cruz died in 1591. I’d hoped that witnessing the last...
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The Brothers Karamazov in 2021
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Contino, Paul J.
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Love, Actively Reading The Brothers Karamazov in 2021 PAUL J. CONTINO “We’ve become better people since we read The Karamazovs!” Readers spoke those words to Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky...
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