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February
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 Vol. 152 Issue 003 (March 1 2025)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Reading right, chronic pain, Communion,
and the “Cornaro men” LOST IN TRANSLATION I was making my way through the backlog of reading that accumulates around the holidays when I happened...
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From the Editors
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FROM THE EDITORS Unchecked & Unbalanced It took Donald Trump and Elon Musk less than a month to lead the country into chaos and crisis. “Move fast and break things,” the heedless and...
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Protecting PEPFAR
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Doyle, Miles
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Migrants in Guantánamo On February 4, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released photos of the first “criminal aliens” to be flown to Guantánamo Bay. The migrants, shackled and wearing...
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Trump’s plan for Gaza
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Stern, Alexander
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A Barbaric Proposal The use of euphemistic language to conceal war crimes is sadly nothing new, but Donald Trump’s attempt to pitch ethnic cleansing as a can’t-miss...
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Cybertrucks & apocalypse
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Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
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SHORT TAKES SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS The Apocalypse Machine Tesla’s Cybertruck is a hard, ugly car for a hard, ugly age. Every morning on the way to preschool, my daughter Julia and I drive...
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Immigration enforcement in Chicago
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Oliva, Alejandra
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SHORT TAKES ALEJANDRA OLIVA Visibly Invisible Immigration enforcement in Chicago As promised, the Trump administration’s “enhanced immigration enforcement activities” began in Chicago in...
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Bob Menendez’s corruption
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Moses, Paul
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SHORT TAKES PAUL MOSES Old Bonds and Gold Bars To understand how Bob Menendez fell so far, look to
his mentor. What happened to Bob Menendez? It’s something I’ve thought about...
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Letter from the Burmese-Thai border
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Graceffo, Antonio
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SHORT TAKES ANTONIO GRACEFFO ‘We Hope Their Future Is Better’ Letter from the Burmese-
Thai border Having both of their sons forcibly conscripted into opposing armies in Burma’s...
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How capital cannibalizes literature
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Calvert, Drew
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ARTICLE A Guest of the Management Drew Calvert Servicing the literary pretensions of the MBA class In 2010, I had coffee with a bookish entrepreneur who believed that writers and founders...
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Progressive prejudices
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Kronman, Anthony T.
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ARTICLE Three Progressive Prejudices Anthony T. Kronman How unexamined ideals blind us to our humanity Our broad ideals of equality and toleration, individual freedom and scientific...
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A Catholic humanities education
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Swoboda, Jessica
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ARTICLE No Easy Answers Jessica Swoboda Grappling with the questions raised by my Catholic humanities education One of my more recent experiences with heartbreak was when a Catholic priest...
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‘Watching Grass’
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Stein, Gary
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POETRY WATCHING GRASS Gary Stein We seed and cull, wet and till, lay down lime and peat to grow what no one eats but cattle we can’t own but buy in parts. One works hard to green the...
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‘Commonweal’ and the Vietnam War
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Steinfels, Peter
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ARTICLE ‘Commonweal’
and the Vietnam War Peter Steinfels How and why the magazine changed its position When I joined its staff in the summer of 1964, Commonweal supported the war in Vietnam....
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‘The Brutalist’
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Rubsam, Robert
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ROBERT RUBSAM Empire of Signs Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’ Teotihuacan was once the center of the world. The pre-Aztec Teotihuacanos modeled their great capital in what is now central...
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Bruce Chatwin
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Rouner, Helen
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CRITIC AT LARGE HELEN ROUNER Long Horizons Bruce Chatwin’s apocalyptic imagination In the great swashbuckling English tradition, Bruce Chatwin liked to present his adventures as the products...
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‘In the Time of Fire’
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Wiman, Christian
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POETRY IN THE TIME OF FIRE Christian Wiman She had a vision of the vowels of doves floating like snow in a common dawn, not so much freed from gravity, she said, as in league with it, a...
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We Have Never Been Woke
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al-Gharbi, Musa
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BOOKS Woke 2.0 GEORGE SCIALABBA What is woke, anyway? For the average pundit, it’s the pretension to a superior wisdom or a more fervent dedication in regard to racial and sexual justice....
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The Afternoon of Christianity
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k, Tomáš HalÃ
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BOOKS Fr. Tomáš Halík in Prague Castle, Czech Republic, October 28, 2023 How Much Must the Church Change? PAUL LAKELAND There have been plenty of books arguing the need for change...
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Henry David Thoreau by Lawrence Buell and Followed by the Lark
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Humphreys, Helen
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BOOKS Not So Close ASHLEY C. BARNES If the large number of visitors flocking to Massachussetts’s Walden Pond State Reservation each year are any indication, the life of Henry David Thoreau...
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‘The Gods’
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Swann, Brian
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POETRY Brian Swann THE GODS return, dust from a bee’s wings, this small brown moth
just landed on my arm, clatter of pebbles in a mountain stream,
whisper of maidenhair fern...
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice
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Elliott, Carl
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BOOKS All Too Human BERNARD G. PRUSAK The devil is making a comeback, if as nothing else but an explanatory device. Deliverance ministries and exorcisms are reportedly the rage among young...
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Correspondence with My Greeks
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Cairns, Scott
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BOOKS Dangers and Elations ANTHONY DOMESTICO “Uneasy Equations,” the final poem in Scott Cairns’s latest collection, begins, as so many of his poems do, in the middle of a conversation: I,...
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Singing in the choir
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Swetnam, Susan H.
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LAST WORD Singing Myself Back to Life SUSAN H. SWETNAM How grateful I am when members of a congregation raise their voice to sing the Mass’s hymns, and how sad I find it when they sit...
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‘Transfigure’
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Moessner, John
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POETRY TRANSFIGURE John Moessner Soda cans and jump ropes decorate the patchy grass on the first warm day of spring. Two girls run with arms spread to catch the wind in soap-loaded...
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April
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