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 Vol. 152 Issue 008 (September 1 2025)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Religion and science, ordinary virtue, and UBI WHEN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH BECOMES OBSOLETE Susan Bigelow Reynolds develops an interesting analogy in her contribution to Commonweal’s...
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From the Editors
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FROM THE EDITORS The Politics of Distraction All too predictably, Donald Trump’s short, shambolic summit in Alaska with Vladimir Putin does not seem to have advanced any kind of resolution...
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Big Tech's persecution complex
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Stern, Alexander
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Big Tech’s Persecution Complex Seldom has a silence betrayed as much as the one that followed when Ross Douthat asked Peter Thiel if he’d like to see the human race persist. Thiel’s...
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CatholicVote at the Vatican
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Preziosi, Dominic
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Trump’s Man at the Vatican In a rare Saturday session in August, the Senate confirmed Brian Burch, cofounder and former president of the pro-Trump advocacy group CatholicVote, as U.S. ambassador...
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Trump-Pinochet parallels
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Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
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SHORT TAKES SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS The Pinochet Parallels Lessons from Chile for a
perilous time During Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, J. D. Vance—then the fresh-faced,...
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The FBI investigates a priest
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Moses, Paul
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SHORT TAKES PAUL MOSES Errors of Omission A House committee report
ignores the reason an SSPX priest was investigated. There was a major omission in a recent House Judiciary Committee...
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Christians in the Middle East
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Amar, Joseph Phillip
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SHORT TAKES JOSEPH PHILLIP AMAR ‘They Set Fire to Our Lives’ Christians under siege in the Middle East It has been another bitter season for Christians in the Middle East. Again,...
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The Communist attack on Buddhism
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Howard, Thomas Albert
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THOMAS ALBERT HOWARD ‘Smash Temples, Build Schools’ The Communist assault on Buddhism At eighty-nine, the Dalai Lama has once again made global headlines—this time with a striking...
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Coming Home
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O'Donovan, Leo J.
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SHORT TAKES LEO J. O’DONOVAN Coming Home Our contributions to a heaven in the making It has been said that in no language are the overtones of the word “home” quite what they are...
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Against economic scientism
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Christman, Phil
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ARTICLE Creatures, not Calculators Phil Christman The value—and inescapability—of values Capitalist economics has a problem. It wants to be a science. There’s nothing wrong with that, of...
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Catholic mom bloggers
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Schlumpf, Heidi
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ARTICLE ‘What We Do in Our Homes Really Matters’ Heidi Schlumpf A new generation of Catholic ‘mom bloggers’ comes of age. When I was in my thirties, feminist theology saved my life, or at...
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Solitude as a virtue
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Harper, Lynn Casteel
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ARTICLE The Virtues
of Solitude Lynn Casteel Harper To cure the loneliness epidemic, we need to learn how
to be alone. In the opening of his recent special, Lonely Flowers, comedian Roy Wood...
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'Mary Lou'
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Critchley-Menor, William
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POETRY MARY LOU William Critchley-Menor “There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She never left the temple.” There is a fabric I associate with...
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William F. Buckley Jr.
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Baumann, Paul
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All in the Family Paul Baumann How William F. Buckley Jr. turned his father’s private convictions and prejudices into a major political movement William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008), regarded...
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'School Prayer'
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Snook, Christopher
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POETRY SCHOOL PRAYER Christopher Snook It couldn’t mean anything in the end all of us disheveled and lined up disorderly singing O Canada to the muzak pumped through the PA system...
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Paul Klee's 'Two Men Meet'
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Rodden, John
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CRITIC AT LARGE JOHN RODDEN A Delicate Dance What a famous etching by Paul Klee tells us about power Paul Klee’s Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank captures a moment...
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Baldwin by Nicholas Boggs
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Lloyd, Reviewed by Vincent
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BOOKS A Certain Power VINCENT LLOYD “Whose little boy are you?” That was the question a Pentecostal preacher asked the young James Baldwin as he was about to embark on his career...
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Failing Our Futures by Joshua R. Eyler
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Brown, Reviewed by Ryan M.
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BOOKS The Case Against Grades RYAN M. BROWN Grades matter. College admissions and early career opportunities largely hinge on them. For those who excel academically, grades are a passport to...
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Books in Brief
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BOOKS IN BRIEF Set in sixteenth-century Florence, this Renaissance-era whodunit by award-winning French novelist Laurent Binet offers a devilish twist on the modern...
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Mood Machine by Liz Pelly
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Wilson, Reviewed by Kit
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BOOKS A Sour Note KIT WILSON I’m not going to divulge my age, but I’ll give you some clues. My earliest musical memory is of lying on the living room floor, listening to my parents’ vinyl...
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'The Busker and the Tomboy'
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Oser, Lee
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POETRY THE BUSKER AND THE TOMBOY Lee Oser The busker strums his blond and slender-hipped guitar as time
Directs his giddy step. One summer day he staked his claim To dig for silver in the...
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Saints and Liars by Debórah Dwork
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Mueller, Reviewed by Agnes
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BOOKS Uneven Fates AGNES MUELLER Holocaust memory is proceeding to a new stage. Soon, we will no longer have unmediated access to living survivor testimony, which has been so crucial to our...
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The Greatest of All Plagues by David Lay Williams
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Sweeney, Reviewed by Terence
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BOOKS Bad for Everyone TERENCE SWEENEY In Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, life expectancy depends not on fraternal feeling but on the neighborhood you live in. Reside in an...
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The Bible by Bruce Gordon
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Johnson, Reviewed by Luke Timothy
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BOOKS A Book Like No Other LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON That the Bible is the most frequently published, widely translated, deeply revered, and vigorously disputed book ever written is a...
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After the accident
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Phillips, Mark
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LAST WORD After the Accident
MARK PHILLIPS When I recall the moments before the accident, the headlights of my family’s Ford seeming to bring the pavement and roadside trees into existence,...
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