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 Vol. 148 Issue 003 (March 1 2021)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Individual vs. Social Sin VACCINES & ABORTION In a statement released by the USCCB affirming the moral permissibility of getting the COVID-19 vaccine, the bishops remark, "we should be on...
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Shameful
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FROM THE EDITORS Shameful The Senate’s acquittal of Donald Trump for inciting the January 6 insurrection did not come as a surprise, but that doesn’t make it any less disturbing. Forty-three...
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Rallying around Navalny
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Simon, Isabella
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COMMENT Hope for Yemen The civil war in Yemen is currently the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe. A hundred thousand Yemenis have died, more than 8 million are displaced, and 80 percent of...
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Getting back to school
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Preziosi, Dominic
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Getting Back to School What’s at stake in the fight over reopening schools? That such a question, phrased in such a way, needs to be asked at all is indicative of how poorly we’ve tended to public...
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Restoring federal labor law
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Mazewski, Matt
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COLUMN MATT MAZEWSKI Ending the Sabotage How Democrats can restore federal labor law Now that Democrats have a bare majority in the U.S. Senate, thanks to the Georgia runoff elections in...
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The mourning after
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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SHORT TAKES RAND RICHARDS COOPER The Mourning After Trump's style will have lasting effects. He is finally gone. The Fool departs, the Reign of Error closes. The feeling in our household, as in...
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Women in liturgy
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Reilly, Mollie Wilson O’
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SHORT TAKES MOLLIE WILSON O'REILLY Women's Work The pope makes it harder to keep women out of liturgy. It must be difficult for a mainstream journalist covering the Vatican beat on days like...
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Letter from Cholula, Mexico
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Sorrentino, Joseph
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SHORT TAKES JOSEPH SORRENTINO Scraping By Letter from Cholula, Mexico Guadalupe José Medina Tima starts work around 10:30 in the morning, when he arrives with his shoeshine box at a park in...
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The paradoxes of deterrence
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PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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SHORT TAKES BERNARD G. PRUSAK The Paradoxes of Deterrence How the debate about nuclear weapons has evolved A little more than halfway through their 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace,...
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“Leaving Boston†and “All Day We Droveâ€
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Chapman, Danielle
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POETRY Two Poems by Danielle Chapman LEAVING BOSTON Burgundy geometries of waiting chairs recede and magazines flap open behind us as we smack through overpasses like waves of a whopping...
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Catholicism and gender
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Walden, Daniel
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ARTICLE Gender, Sex, and Other Nonsense Daniel Walden We have no better place to begin than the stories people tell about themselves. It is not unfair to say that Catholic conversation about sex...
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“Tortoiseâ€
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Cadnum, Michael
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POETRY TORTOISE Michael Cadnum The only wild creature that ever visited was the tortoise, a living helmet that would be crossing the heat-reflecting gravel again suddenly after years of being...
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Textual idolatry
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Ruden, Sarah
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ARTICLE When Texts Become Idols Sarah Ruden What happens when the Bible becomes something more than revelation, and the Constitution something more than a tool? The Founding Fathers’ group...
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Bolivia after Evo
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Ramos, Santiago
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After Evo Santiago Ramos Can a new president in Bolivia keep his party’s old promises? After a tumultuous year in Bolivia, the socialists are back in power. “We have recovered democracy...
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“Leaving Boston Againâ€
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Chapman, Danielle
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POETRY LEAVING BOSTON AGAIN Danielle Chapman When I woke out of my reverie (thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus the scans weren’t worse and make my life a testimony to your...
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‘Marking Time’
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Oleynick, Griffin
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ARTS GRIFFIN OLEYNICK Carceral Aesthetics 'Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration' The year 2012 was a turning point for Gilberto Rivera. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Brooklyn,...
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‘The White Tiger’
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Lobo, Nicole-Ann
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SCREEN NICOLE-ANN LOBO Eat or Get Eaten 'The White Tiger' A dilapidated rural village, an intelligent protagonist achieving success against all odds, saccharine reflections on our common...
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‘Mank’
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Baumann, Paul
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PAUL BAUMANN 'Citizen Kane' Revisited The 'Commonweal' connection I had read quite a bit of praise for Mank, the new movie about the making of Citizen Kane, before watching it on Netflix. The...
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Set the Night on Fire and The Monster Enters
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Thomason, John
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BOOKS Excavating the Future JOHN THOMASON SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE L.A. in the Sixties mike davis and jon wiener Verso $34.95 | 800 pp. THE MONSTER ENTERS COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of...
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Books in Brief
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BOOKS IN BRIEF LET US DREAM The Path to a Better Future pope francis and austen ivereigh Simon & Schuster $26 | 160 pp. Let Us Dream resonates with themes familiar from Pope Francis's other...
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Conversations with René Girard and Evolution of Desire
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Bradatan, Costica
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BOOKS A Happy Contrarian COSTICA BRADATAN CONVERSATIONS WITH RENÉ GIRARD Prophet of Envy rene girard edited by cynthia l. haven Bloomsbury Academic $26.96 | 232 pp. EVOLUTION OF DESIRE A Life...
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“Philately†and “All Soulsâ€
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Lehman, David
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POETRY Two Poems by David Lehman PHILATELY ALL SOULS It happens every year: a dead man is elected justice of the peace. The jury is sequestered, each juror having been asked “Are you now or...
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The antics of the turnips
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iz, St. Rafael Arná
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LAST WORD The Antics of the Turnips ST. RAFAEL ARNÁIZ Born in 1911, Rafael Arnáiz was a young architecture student in Madrid when he first visited the Trappist monastery of San Isidro de Dueñas...
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