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 Vol. 151 Issue 009 (October 10 2024)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Medicalizing grief, complicating belief AN ESSENTIAL DISTINCTION As someone who experienced long-term debilitating grief at one point in my life, I can say firsthand that there is a difference...
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The risk of reelecting Trump
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FROM THE EDITORS Dangerous as Ever It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a decade since Donald Trump’s infamous 2015 ride down the escalator at Trump Tower, where, following brief remarks...
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The housing crisis
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Doyle, Miles
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Toxic Relationship Six months ago, Benjamin Netanyahu said the war in Gaza was on the verge of ending. Yet one year after the Hamas attacks of October 7, Israel’s bombardment continues. Among the...
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Climate and migration
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Simon, Isabella
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Sins of Emission When Donald Trump talks about immigrants, he regularly misrepresents both who they are and how they fit into our economy. But his unrelenting attention on them has brought the...
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The legacy of Patrick MacGill
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McGowan, Jo
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JO MCGOWAN ‘When He Had Cash, He Bought Books’ My self-taught grandfather’s poetry and stories My grandfather died on the same day as JFK. I was five. Events on television and in our own house...
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Managed retreat
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Caverly, Will
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WILL CAVERLY Eyeing Retreat As floodwaters rise, strategic buyouts might be the best option. The first year of the pandemic gave us new household names, like George Floyd and Dr. Anthony Fauci....
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'Weird' as a political taunt
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McNamara, Charles
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What’s Wrong with Weird? Charles McNamara The ancient history of the latest political taunt The Romans would have been great at TikTok—perhaps not all of them, but surely the politicians. Long...
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What Baptism offers
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Gee, Melody S.
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Initiations Melody S. Gee When we returned in May 2015 from a semester of living abroad, my husband and I were imbued with a new sense of commitment and gratitude for where we lived. I was never...
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'Psalm at Sea'
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Stalcup, Michael
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PSALM AT SEA Michael Stalcup I am still rowing when you would have me sail— attentive to the wind, at rest in its sabbaths, sent forth by your Spirit and stilled. MICHAEL STALCUP is a...
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Considering the case for marriage
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Munch, Regina
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Happily Ever After? Regina Munch Two recent books discuss the social and economic advantages of marriage My seventh-grade English teacher liked to mix life advice into her lessons on sentence...
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Three poems by J. R. Solonche
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Three Poems by J. R. Solonche CLAIRE DE LUNE She said as a child it was the first she heard her mother play. Now it is the last she remembers as all memory falls away. LOVE POEM “What are...
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Adventures in theology
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Dorrien, Gary
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An Unlikely Adventure Gary Dorrien Portrait of the theologian as a young organizer In September 1974 I took my first airline flight, headed to Harvard Divinity School. I was a child of the...
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The two economies
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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The Two Economies The rich have recovered—the country hasn’t. CHARLES R. MORRIS In early January, walking in midtown Manhattan on a bitter-cold morning, I saw a crowd of people standing on the...
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Charles Taylor
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Stern, Alexander
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‘A Sense Sublime’ An interview with Charles Taylor ALEXANDER STERN Charles Taylor is professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at McGill University. Educated at McGill and Oxford,...
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Distant journeys
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Katzenstein, David
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A Generous Lens PHOTOS BY DAVID KATZENSTEIN, TEXT BY GRIFFIN OLEYNICK In the brief introduction to Distant Journeys, a new collection of photography assembled from trips undertaken over nearly...
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Maps of Meaning
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Stern, Alexander
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Maps of Meaning ALEXANDER STERN Ideology is “like halitosis”: it’s “what the other person has.” So writes Terry Eagleton in his book Ideology: An Introduction. The Bernie bro thinks the tech bro...
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Heroes & Phonies
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Geoghegan, Thomas
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Heroes & Phonies THOMAS GEOGHEGAN In a country that prides itself on its tradition of free speech, it should be a shock that so many Americans live in fear of joining a union or even speaking...
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Two Americas?
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Misukanis, Nicholas
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Two Americas? NICHOLAS MISUKANIS Millions of readers know Heather Cox Richardson from her Substack, Letters from an American, in which the Boston College historian analyzes news and political...
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'In Her Pain'
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Reardon, Patrick T.
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IN HER PAIN Brother Elbow and Little Sister poem #7 Patrick T. Reardon We sit with Trump enthusiasts, Elbow, Sister and I. Oh, Elbow, calm down. Sister knows their hard-shelling...
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Remembering Peasants
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Mitchell, Gus
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‘A Person of the Land’ GUS MITCHELL Patrick Joyce’s “personal history” of the European peasantry will likely become the standard introduction to this knotty, misunderstood, and urgent subject....
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Consider the Zoo
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Lucky, Kate
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Consider the Zoo KATE LUCKY The flamingos are fed at 3:00 p.m. Clustering at the edge of their enclosure, they plunge their beaks frantically into cups full of pellets, held by children. The...
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