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 Vol. 151 Issue 006 (June 1 2024)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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The Catholic Left, Evangelical diversity, and neoliberalism’s stranglehold THE BERRIGAN LEGACY It is with deep gratitude that I read the excellent article “When the FBI Feared the Catholic Left”...
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Freedom of the press
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Silencing the Press Reporter Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal has been detained in Russia for more than a year. It’s been nearly twelve years since Austin Tice, a freelance...
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Regulating AI
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Doyle, Miles
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Whitewashing War Crimes Catch-22 author Joseph Heller would have recognized the language and logic of the State Department’s recent report to Congress on the possibility that Israel has used...
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A home-insurance crisis
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Simon, Isabella
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An Uninsurable Future? In 2023, two out of every three American homes were underinsured. Nationally, “insurers paid out more in claims than they received in premiums”...
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Nonviolent resistance
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Schlabach, Gerald W.
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GERALD W. SCHLABACH How to Remain Unconquered Lessons in nonviolence from the Danish resistance to Nazism Under Pope Francis’s guidance, Roman Catholic teaching on war and peace seems...
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Antisemitism in Australia
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Hammer, Viva
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VIVA HAMMER Antisemitism in Paradise Letter from Australia I am a fifth-generation Australian and have lived my adult life in America, but if you ask me how I identify, I say: as a Jew. A...
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Instant replay
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Stern, Alexander
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ALEXANDER STERN Replay and Reality On what’s wrong with ‘getting it right’ In October 1986, during an NFL game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Oakland...
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‘Dignitas Infinita’
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What Does Dignity Mean Now? A symposium on ‘Dignitas Infinita’ Daniel Walden
Gilbert Meilaender Maura Tumulty Cathleen Kaveny In April, the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine...
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The asset-manager takeover
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Dale, Gareth
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The Invisible Owners Gareth Dale On the rise of asset management I live in London, and with little choice but to use its water and sewage systems, I make payments each year to the company...
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A universal Church
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Pierre, Cardinal Christophe
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Living Water Cardinal Christophe Pierre What modern Christians can learn from Christ’s encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well Back in ancient Greece, Diogenes the Cynic was once...
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‘Flowers for Gwen’
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Moessner, John
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FLOWERS FOR GWEN John Moessner A painted vase sits in the darkness of a day done. A single iris lengthens above a bed of peonies, their brimming shapes fill the room with a quiet...
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On nuclear disbelief
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Powers, Thomas
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FROM THE ARCHIVES In June 1945, Commonweal associate editor C. G. Paulding denounced an essay by Major George Fielding Eliot, then a military analyst for the New York Herald Tribune, that...
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‘Civil War’
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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RAND RICHARDS COOPER Bangs and Whimpers Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ Ours is a boom time for anxiety. Still reeling from a global pandemic, we now face the advent of avian flu. The...
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‘Photosynthesis’
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Powell, Jim
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PHOTOSYNTHESIS Tilden Lake Jim Powell Hemlocks in tiers lean into the oblique light of late afternoon facing Chittenden Peak down the lake shore— their last hour till...
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‘Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within’
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Situ, Xiao
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XIAO SITU Kiln & Cosmos ‘Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within’ Years ago, when I was on the teaching staff of a museum, I led a group of schoolchildren to view an installation of sculptures made...
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Another Productivity Hack?
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Malesic, Jonathan
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Another Productivity Hack? JONATHAN MALESIC Everyone wants to get things done, but it can be hard to predict how long they’ll take. Mathematicians needed three centuries to prove...
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Illiberal Liberations
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Munch, Regina
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Illiberal Liberations REGINA MUNCH After graduating from college, I interned at a refugee-resettlement agency in Philadelphia. One day, we took students in the vocational English class to...
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A We without Boundaries
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Imbelli, Robert P.
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Before There Was Ferrante RANDY BOYAGODA In a 2014 interview, the novelist Elena Ferrante described the transformative effect of reading Elsa Morante’s 1948 novel Lies and Sorcery when she...
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Weight and Measure
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Pritchard, William H.
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Weight and Measure WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD Anthony Hecht, who died in 2004, has assumed the status of one of the major American poets of the past century’s late...
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‘Goats at Work’
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Crowe, Judy Brackett
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GOATS AT WORK Judy Brackett Crowe This morning, the twin nanny goats are on top of the old Volvo wagon, craning their necks, chomping on succulent madrone leaves, chewing sideways, wispy...
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St. Francis’s father
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Brady, Kathleen
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Sins of the Father KATHLEEN BRADY Among the villains who populate the lives of the saints, none stands out quite like Peter Bernadone. Peter is famous for abusing his son, St. Francis of...
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