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 Vol. 151 Issue 004 (April 1 2024)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Israel’s actions in Gaza, alternatives to integralism,
roadblocks to environmental protection CONTEXT IS KEY The article by Regina Munch (“‘Birth Doesn’t Wait,’” March) is correct that “Birth...
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Ending aid to Israel
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FROM THE EDITORS Turn Off the Tap The casualty figures from the war in Gaza are unimaginably grim and getting grimmer by the day. As we go to press, at least 31,988 Palestinians—most of them...
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Chaos in Haiti
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Munch, Regina
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Suicide as Protest Self-immolation as a form of political protest has a long tradition. Among the most famous examples is that of twenty-year-old Jan Palach, who, in 1969, set...
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Tough-on-crime Democrats
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Doyle, Miles
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A Show of Force on the Subway In early March, in response to a 45 percent spike in major crimes on the subway at the beginning of the year, New York governor Kathy Hochul...
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Letter from Warsaw
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Kane, Lauren
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SHORT TAKES LAUREN KANE A New Era? Letter from Warsaw A week or so before I was due to travel to Warsaw, my text messages were filled with photos of Poland’s Independence Day. They had all...
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What ‘Fiducia supplicans’ changed
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Montecel, Xavier M.
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XAVIER M. MONTECEL What ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ Has Changed And what it has not It has been several months since the release of the Vatican’s new declaration on the blessing of same-sex...
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Annulment and the Petrine privilege
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Willett, Beverly
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BEVERLY WILLETT In Favor of the Faith? Divorce, annulment, and the Petrine privilege My divorce was final fifteen years ago. But the Catholic Church, to which I’m a recent...
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Trump’s Evangelical appeal
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Geoghegan, Thomas
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ARTICLE Leviathan Thomas Geoghegan How Trump liberated the religious Right from religion “God made Trump.” So Trump’s platform, Truth Social, now declares. And He made him for a divinely...
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Christians in the Middle East
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Amar, Joseph Phillip
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ARTICLE Anatomy of a Tragedy Joseph Phillip Amar Christianity in the Middle East On October 19, 2023, an Israeli airstrike near St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City caused...
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Catholic social democracy
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Annett, Anthony
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What Comes Next Anthony Annett Neoliberalism is doomed. Could a new model of social democracy replace it? Social democracy might well be the most successful economic project in...
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Two Poems by J. T. Barbarese
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POETRY Two Poems by J. T. Barbarese PHOTONS AND HOUSE DUST —La chair est triste, hélas! Mallarmé Dawn. Strange house, a futon. A finger of sunlit dust struck the book you fell asleep...
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The politics of victimhood
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Steinfels, Peter
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ARTICLE Drip, Drip, Drip Peter Steinfels What the funeral of a trans activist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral—and the reactions to it—say about our cultural politics On Thursday, February 15, a...
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Is the world a problem?
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Merton, Thomas
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FROM THE ARCHIVES Like much of the country, Commonweal entered the 1960s with a renewed sense of purpose and a cautious optimism for the future. John F. Kennedy would soon be in the White House,...
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‘Arrivals and Departures’
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Oser, Lee
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POETRY ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES For Maureen and David Lee Oser Arrivals and departures on the board,
Traveling days linked with lilacs Whose redolence derails our sense of time. They...
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Nicholas B. Dirks
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Preziosi, Dominic
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INTERVIEW Whither the University? An interview with
Nicholas B. Dirks Nicholas B. Dirks is president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences, a professor of history and anthropology, and...
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‘Requiem’
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Cooley, Peter
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POETRY REQUIEM Peter Cooley It is April, spring. The world’s oldest beginning. My birds are at it, every moment new, again. They go on, heralding, on, incessant. What melody will they...
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Fanny Mendelssohn
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Vosters, Jennifer
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CRITIC AT LARGE JENNIFER VOSTERS An Easter Revival Composer Fanny Mendelssohn finally gets her due. Berlin, 1828. A promising young composer, born to a distinguished family, writes the...
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‘La forza del destino’
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Rose, Harry
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ARTS HARRY ROSE Grace & Chaos ‘La forza del destino’ Watching La forza del destino, Giuseppe Verdi’s sprawling 1869 opera about fate’s relentless pursuit of a single family line in...
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Judgment at Tokyo by Gary J. Bass
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McGreevy, John T.
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BOOKS Local Adaptations JOHN T. MCGREEVY Gary Bass’s Judgment at Tokyo assesses the trials of Japanese leaders conducted by the Allied powers after World War II—a lesser known and, in Bass’s...
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Why Teach Philosophy in Schools? by Jane Gatley
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Brown, Ryan M.
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BOOKS Useful for What? RYAN M. BROWN The majority of Americans are unlikely ever to take a course in philosophy. Though most colleges offer at least a general introduction to the subject,...
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Sensing the Spirit by Judith A. Merkle
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Nuelle, Jack
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A Divine Seed JACK NUELLE When we talk about the decline of religion in modern life, religious orders are not often our first topic of conversation. Shrinking Catholic religious life...
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Crisis Actor by Declan Ryan
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Domestico, Anthony
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BOOKS All a Matter of Tense ANTHONY DOMESTICO You could construct a history of modern literature just by writing about boxing. Start with the Marquess of Queensberry, who both helped codify...
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Elegy for a landline
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Mesmer, Sharon
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LAST WORD Elegy for a Landline SHARON MESMER “It’s weird how sad I am,” I texted my nephew Nicholas on my iPhone as I waited for takeout in a Mexican restaurant. “I’m sad, too,” he...
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