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 Vol. 149 Issue 006 (June 1 2022)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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WHO REMEMBERS? Andrew Bacevich is right to remind readers of the impact of news cycles on memory (“The Value of ‘Whataboutism,’” April). I write from Abu Dhabi, where roughly ten thousand refugees...
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From the Editors
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FROM THE EDITORS Getting Used to It One measure of a sick society is how much suffering it can resign itself to. By this measure, the United States isn’t doing very well these days. Much of...
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Anti-trans legislation
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Simon, Isabella
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The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh Local Christian leaders didn’t mince words following the killing of veteran reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on...
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The bishops and Roe
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Steinfels, Peter
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The Bishops
and Roe On Wednesday, May 4, Religion News Service (RNS) carried a dispatch headed “Roe v. Wade: Faith leaders react to leaked SCOTUS opinion.” The article quoted...
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Biden’s billionaire tax
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Mazewski, Matt
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SHORT TAKES MATT MAZEWSKI Too Big to Pluck Biden’s ‘billionaire tax’ During last fall’s negotiations in Congress over President Biden’s ill-fated “Build Back Better” package of social,...
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What is ‘equity’?
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McNamara, Charles
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SHORT TAKES CHARLES MCNAMARA What Is Equity? And why is the Right so upset about it? We live in the age of “equity,” a word suddenly on the lips of activists and politicians everywhere....
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Remembering John Leo
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Steinfels, Peter
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SHORT TAKES PETER STEINFELS Chronicler of Follies Remembering John Leo John Leo died on May 10 at the age of eighty-six. The headline for the New York Times obituary described him as a...
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Letter from Mexico
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Sorrentino, Joseph
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SHORT TAKES JOSEPH SORRENTINO Something Like Normal Letter from Mexico One of the most treasured traditions in San Gregorio Atlapulco, a pueblo of about 30,000 people in the southernmost...
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T. S. Eliot’s conservative modernism
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Eagleton, Terry
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ARTICLE The Pope of
Russell Square Terry Eagleton T. S. Eliot’s conservative modernism For much of the twentieth century, the most revered, influential figure in English literary criticism...
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“Ruinâ€
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Rawson, Eric
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POETRY RUIN Eric Rawson For a time we will move lightly. The ash of evening fills the fields.
We don’t know where to go. We go. Others will come to tell us when
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Synodality & a responsive Church
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Flores, Bishop Daniel E.
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Closeness & the Common Journey Bishop Daniel E. Flores, STD Synodality as an expression of the Church’s responsiveness to Christ The synodal focus of Pope Francis is best understood in...
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Bucha’s wounds
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Surinyach, Anna
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PHOTO ESSAY Bucha’s Wounds ANNA SURINYACH Bucha, a small city northwest of Kyiv, is a place whose name will be remembered long after the war in Ukraine ends. Like Guernica or My Lai, it has...
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Great-books programs
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Hitz, Zena
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REVIEW ESSAY Human Fundamentals Zena Hitz The case for great-books programs When Roosevelt Montás, a newly arrived immigrant from the Dominican Republic, was a sophomore in high school, he...
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“Nestâ€
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Schiffman, Richard
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POETRY NEST Richard Schiffman I cupped the nest as Rembrandt’s Aristotle
held the bust of Homer and thought
of all those restless flights to ferry twigs
and blades of grass and scraps of...
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Mallory McMorrow
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Preziosi, with Dominic
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INTERVIEW ‘There’s Always Something We Can Offer Someone Else’ An interview with
Mallory McMorrow Dominic Preziosi On April 19, Mallory McMorrow, Democratic State Senator of Michigan,...
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What It Took to Win by Michael Kazin
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McGreevy, John T.
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What Does It Take Now? JOHN T. MCGREEVY It is the world’s oldest mass political organization, founded by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren in the early nineteenth century, promoted at...
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Books in Brief
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BOOKS BOOKS IN BRIEF “The only thing worse than my nerves was my curiosity,” the late novelist Harry Crews reveals near the end of his 1978 memoir, just reissued as a...
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Not One Inch by M. E. Sarotte
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Sheehan, James J.
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BOOKS A Missed Opportunity? JAMES J. SHEEHAN A character in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises describes the two ways in which he went bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.” The same thing...
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Storm by George R. Stewart
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Lucky, Katherine
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On the Horizon KATHERINE LUCKY In today’s stories about weather, humans are the villains. At least, that’s how it feels. When reservoirs run dry, when a wildfire burns, when a “historic”...
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Accidental Gods by Anna Della Subin
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Klug, Nate
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BOOKS The Vagaries of God-Making NATE KLUG “A poem containing history,” Ezra Pound called his unfinished magnum opus. Accidental Gods is a book of history that sometimes reads like a poem, a...
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Gogol or Hohol?
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Rodden, John
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CRITIC AT LARGE JOHN RODDEN Gogol or Hohol? Was the great writer Russian, Ukrainian, or both? Was Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol a writer without a fatherland? Or was he a writer with two...
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‘Still Beloved’
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Fieseler, Robert W.
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LAST WORD ‘Still Beloved’ ROBERT W. FIESELER It is late morning as I cross the lawns of Calvary Hill Cemetery in Dallas. Looking for the grave of a twenty-four-year-old man who burned to...
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