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MARCH 2021 COMMONWEAL: Member Comments

  MARCH 2021 COMMONWEAL FROM THE EDITORS Shameful COMMENT Hope for Yemen (Regina Munch) Rallying around Navalny (Isabella Simon) Getting back to school (Dominic Preziosi) COLUMN Restoring federal labor law (Matt Mazewski) SHORT TAKES The mourning after (Rand Richards Cooper) Women in liturgy (Mollie Wilson O’Reilly) Letter from Cholula, Mexico (Joseph Sorrentino) The paradoxes of deterrence (Bernard G. Prusak) ARTICLES Catholicism and gender (Daniel Walden) Textual idolatry (Sarah Ruden) Bolivia after Evo (Santiago Ramos) ARTS ‘Marking Time’ (Griffin Oleynick) SCREEN ‘The White Tiger’ (Nicole-Ann Lobo) ‘Mank’ (Paul Baumann) BOOKS Set the Night on Fire by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener The Monster Enters by Mike Davis (Reviewed by John Thomason ) Conversations with René Girard edited by Cynthia L. Haven Evolution of Desire by Cynthia L. Haven (Reviewed by Costica Bradatan ) Books in Brief POETRY “Leaving Boston” and “All Day We Dr...

FEBRUARY 2021 COMMONWEAL: Member Comments

  FEBRUARY 2021 COMMONWEAL FROM THE EDITORS Convict him COMMENT Warnock’s way (John Gehring) A failed auction (Isabella Simon) Vaccine delays (Katie Daniels) COLUMN Thinking Latinly (Cathleen Kaveny ) A people, not an army  (Susan Bigelow Reynolds  ) SHORT TAKES COVID fatigue (Ebtesam Attaya Islam ) The internet and national security (Andrew Bacevich) Papal populism (Austen Ivereigh) ARTICLES A dangerous confusion (David Cloutier ) The problem of evil (Denys Turner) Acting and empathy (John Paul Rollert) INTERVIEW Barry Lopez with Griffin Oleynick BOOKS A Promised Land by Barack Obama (Reviewed by Paul Baumann) Red Pill by Hari Kunzru (Reviewed by Adam Fleming Petty) The Open Heart Club by Gabriel Brownstein (Reviewed by Rand Richards Cooper) Regret by Paul J. Griffiths (Reviewed by Jonathan Malesic) Philosopher of the Heart by Clare Carlisle (Reviewed by Gordon Marino) Books in Brief SPORTS Béisbol and the border (Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández) POETRY “Rood Riddle” (Pete Gre...