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DECEMBER 2020 COMMONWEAL: Member Comments

  DECEMBER 2020 COMMONWEAL FROM THE EDITORS Biden’s first challenge COMMENT Georgia’s runoff elections (Isabella Simon) A new foreign policy (Griffin Oleynick) A climate president? (Dominic Preziosi) COLUMN Trump can run again (Matt Mazewski) SHORT TAKES The unjustifiable bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki   (John Schwenkler and Mark Souva) New life for cystic fibrosis patients (Roberto J. De La Noval ) How McCarrick got away with it for so long (David Gibson) ARTICLES A symposium on Fratelli tutti (Charles Taylor, William T. Cavanaugh, Vinson Cunningham, Neomi De Anda ) Bishop John England’s complicated legacy (Paul Lakeland) W. H. Auden and the postChristmas blues (Jeff Reimer) INTERVIEW Frank Pasquale(with Lawrence Joseph) ARTS Vida Americana (Griffin Oleynick) CHRISTMAS CRITICS (Kirstin Valdez Quade, Burke Nixon , Katie Daniels, Dominic Preziosi) BOOKS Hotly in Pursuit of the Real by Ron Hansen (Reviewed by Gerald J. Russello) ...

NOVEMBER 2020 COMMONWEAL: Member Comments

NOVEMBER 2020 COMMONWEAL   FROM THE EDITORS Democracy in America? COMMENT Nagorno-Karabakh  ( Griffin Oleynick) Saving New START  (Regina Munch) Mass in the orange zone (Paul Moses) COLUMN The soundtrack of ‘Fratelli tutti’  (Susan Bigelow Reynolds) SHORT TAKES The moral meaning of a vote for Donald Trump (Timothy Snyder) Sr. Thea Bowman’s challenge to the Catholic Church (Tia Noelle Pratt) Convicting Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano (Martha Doggett ) ARTICLES The controversy over Pius XII (Kevin Madigan) Riding with the hourlies (Jay Neugeboren) The new integralism (Timothy Troutner) BOOKS One Billion Americans by Matthew Yglesias (Reviewed by Matt Mazewski) Jack by Marilynne Robinson (Reviewed by Valerie Sayers) The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson (Reviewed by Anthony Domestico) In Search of the Soul by John Cottingham (Reviewed by Bernard G. Prusak) Charter School City by Douglas N. Harris (Reviewed by Mercedes K. Schneider) ...