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JULY - AUGUST 2020 ISSUE Member Comments

  JULY-AUGUST 2020 COMMONWEAL COLUMNS      Connected by coronavirus (Cathleen Kaveny)      The debate about lockdown measures (Matt Mazewski)       SHORT TAKES        Catholics and the 1918 influenza (Paul Moses)     What the experts can’t tell us (David Cloutier)    Moving toward racial justice (M. Shawn Copeland)      ARTICLES       Bad traditionalism(Tara Isabella Burton)     Drinking alone (Jonathan Malesic)     How to write about depression (Matthew Sitman)   INTERVIEW       Bryan Massingale(with Regina Munch)   FICTION   Patio(Valerie Sayers   BOOKS   On Not Being Someone Else by Andrew H. Miller (Reviewed by Morten Høi Jensen) The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick (Reviewed by Hannah Gold) Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty (reviewed by Frank Pasquale) Escalante’s Dream by David Roberts   (Reviewed by Jeremy Beer) The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead   (Reviewed by Iain Bernhoft) Faith and Science at Notre Dame by John

JUNE 2020 ISSUE: Member Comments

  JUNE 2020 COMMONWEAL ISSUE COLUMN     Reopening churches by Rita Ferrone SHORT TAKES      A gay priest’s vocation by James Alison     ‘The 1619 Project’ by Andrew Bacevich    COVID-19 in Mexico City by Joseph Sorrentino    ARTICLES      What are deacons for?  by Christopher Ruddy, Thomas Baker, William T. Ditewig      Theology in a neoliberal age by Paul Lakeland Martin Buber’s life of dialogue by Patrick Jordan INTERVIEW Jonathan Stevenson with Rand Richards Cooper ARTS Dorothea Lange’s humble gaze by Griffin Oleynick BOOKS The Thirty-Year Genocide by Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi      Reviewed by Gabriel Said Reynolds Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown       Reviewed by Katherine Lucky From the Underground Church to Freedom  by Tomáš Halík       Reviewed by Santiago Ramos Unbelievers by Alec Ryrie     Reviewed by Costica Bradatan Zed by Joanna Kavenna       Reviewed by Valerie Sayers RELIGION BOOKNOTES Luke Timothy Johnson POETRY “Aftermaths” by Peter Cooley “The Proof