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 Vol. 148 Issue 006 (June 1 2021)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS The Language of Ministry NEW HORIZONS Every once in a while I read an article that not only is theologically astute and very well written, but also is compassionate to us all, both as...
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Rogue state
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FROM THE EDITORS Rogue State After four years of Donald Trump’s America-first foreign policy—a policy of snubbing allies, coddling dictators, and turning the State Department into an agent of the...
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Vaccines for everyone
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Daniels, Katie
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COMMENT The Downfall of Liz Cheney It was a tense closed-door meeting that lasted only fifteen minutes, and when it was over GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming was no longer the chair of her party’s...
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SALT dogs
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Preziosi, Dominic
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SALT Dogs Prior to passage of Donald Trump’s 2017 tax package, there was no limit on the amount of state and local taxes Americans could deduct from their federal returns. For people in high-tax...
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Simplifying child allowance policy
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Mazewski, Matt
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SHORT TAKES MATT MAZEWSKI Put Away the Kludges The best child allowance policy is the simplest. Bipartisanship is a much-celebrated virtue in American politics, despite the fact that over the...
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Modi’s complacency
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McGowan, Jo
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SHORT TAKES JO MCGOWAN The Toll of Modi's Complacency Why Covid is ravaging India I arrived in the United States in March 2020—just in time for the birth of our first grandchild. I was scheduled...
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How we treat asylum seekers
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Ramos, Santiago
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SHORT TAKES SANTIAGO RAMOS From Kennel to Icebox How we treat asylum seekers In June 2019, a lawyer stood before a judge to argue that the U.S. government is obligated to provide asylum-seeking...
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Why we protest
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West, Michael
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SHORT TAKES MICHAEL WEST Why We Protest Paying attention is the first step toward justice. We knelt in the middle of Irving Boulevard on a hot June evening. It was 97 degrees at 7 p.m., and the...
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“The Phraseâ€
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Leopold, Nikia
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POETRY THE PHRASE Nikia Leopold Sometimes, traversing a day, the phrase arrives: ‘My kind father.’ I pause, go on, knowing this is a way we’re remembered. Nothing specific, nothing planned...
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The real problem with QAnon
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McNamara, Charles
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SHORT TAKES CHARLES MCNAMARA Know-Nothing Know-It-Alls The real problem with QAnon Even as Donald Trump’s administration sinks into history, the country is still smarting from January’s...
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What religion can teach the Left
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Albertson, David; Blakely, Jason
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ARTICLE From Here to Utopia David Albertson & Jason Blakely What religion can teach the Left Back in the now half-forgotten early days of the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders experienced a...
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Pope Francis’s vision of synodality
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Tobin, Cardinal Joseph W.
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ARTICLE The Long Game Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin Pope Francis’s vision of synodality The longer Francis is pope, the clearer certain aspects of his pontificate’s program have become, even if they...
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A mystic for moderns
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Hochschild, Joshua P.
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ARTICLE A Mystic for Moderns Joshua P. Hochschild Caryll Houselander and the art of suffering well Humiliation is a kind of wound, and that’s what I felt when it struck me. Browsing in a...
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‘Circus Days and Nights’
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Levine, Carol
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ARTS CAROL LEVINE 'Clown, Professor, Writer' A new Philip Glass opera revives interest in the work of Robert Lax. Robert Lax was many things—a mystic, a poet who used simple words to express...
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“Sheep†and “Goats Clearing Brushâ€
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Cadnum, Michael
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POETRY Two Poems by Michael Cadnum SHEEP Chios, Greece The hawks shrill, counting themselves cry by cry. The fox noses the wind for freshness. But this flock has no past and no math. They...
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John Ghazvinian
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Munch, Regina
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INTERVIEW Iran & America An interview with John Ghazvinian John Ghazvinian is the executive director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an author, historian, and...
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The Free World
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McGreevy, John T.
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BOOKS Connecting the Dots JOHN T. MCGREEVY THE FREE WORLD Art and Thought in the Cold War louis menand Farrar, Straus and Giroux $35 | 880 pp. ii he book I ended up writing,” Louis Menand...
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Billy Wilder on Assignment
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Stapinski, Helene
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BOOKS Opening Credits HELENE STAPINSKI BILLY WILDER ON ASSIGNMENT Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna billy wilder Ed. by Noah Isenberg Trans. by Shelley Frisch Princeton...
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Secular Surge
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Woodward, Kenneth L.
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BOOKS Beyond the Gummed Labels KENNETH L. WOODWARD SECULAR SURGE A New Fault Line in American Politics david e. Campbell, geoffrey c. layman, john c. green Cambridge University Press $29.99 |...
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Shuggie Bain
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Scharper, Diane
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BOOKS The Good Son DIANE SCHARPER SHUGGIE BAIN A Novel douglas stuart Grove Press $27 | 448 pp. Douglas Stuart’s semi-autobiographical novel, Shug-gie Bain, was rejected by more than thirty...
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Sick Souls, Healthy Minds
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Marino, Gordon
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BOOKS Captives of Habit GORDON MARINO SICK SOULS, HEALTHY MINDS How William James Can Save Your Life john kaag Princeton University Press $22.95 | 224 pp. William James (1842-1910) is...
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“Churchyardâ€
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Swann, Brian
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POETRY CHURCHYARD Brian Swann Words in stone I can still hear, just, or see their shadows holding in breath so as not be blown away here where sermons in stone are rare now but sometimes...
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The Copenhagen Trilogy
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Rubsam, Robert
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BOOKS Braced for Disappointment ROBERT RUBSAM THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY Childhood; Youth; Dependency tove ditlevsen Trans. by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
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Religion Booknotes
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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BOOKS Religion Booknotes Luke Timothy Johnson RAYMOND E. BROWN AND THE CATHOLIC BIBLICAL RENEWAL Donald Senior, cp Paulist Press $29.95 | 376 pp. Without question, the Sulpician priest Raymond...
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“How to Liveâ€
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Wiman, Christian
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POETRY HOW TO LIVE Christian Wiman A grudge of clouds, little spats of rain, afternoon an everywhere of seethe and haze as of some malocclusion in the brain until, crash, the downrush and...
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I Firmly Resolve
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McClay, B. D.
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LAST WORD I Firmly Resolve B.D. Mc Clay I go to confession mostly to confess some variation on the same three or four sins. Sometimes I can go quite a while—months, even—before I fall into one of...
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