Pope Leo I helped to ensure that Catholicism would outlast the Roman Empire. His name is a reminder that our faith rises above contemporary politics and temporal authority.
Antonio De Loera-Brust
Antonio De Loera-Brust is the communications director for the United Farm Workers. He previously served as special assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He was an O’Hare fellow at America Media from 2017 to 2018.
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Review: America’s two-front dilemma in World War II
Books about World War II are ubiquitous in the nonfiction section, but “Hitler’s American Gamble” is the rare recent work with a genuinely new contribution to make, not just to our understanding of the past but also to our understanding of the present.
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Review: When France invaded Mexico—and tried to impose a Catholic monarchy
For a brief period in the 19th century, Mexico was ruled by a Hapsburg prince installed by France and named emperor. The story is told brilliantly in Edward Shawcross’s new history, ‘The Last Emperor of Mexico.’
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War, human rights abuses, corruption, banned beer: None of it will stop the magic of the World Cup.
Despite the headlines of worker deaths, FIFA corruption and L.G.B.T. human rights violations (and yes, banned beer), billions around the world welcome the World Cup with relief.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Apple TV+’s ‘For All Mankind’ is a space race show that will restore your faith in government
“For All Mankind” invents a Soviet victory in the space race and imagines a tempting counterfactual: What if Americans’ faith in government was never shattered?
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Netflix’s ‘Gentefied’ is the best American TV show about gentrification
“Gentefied” tackles an important issue with nuance and compassion.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The U.S. is exporting Covid-19 to Latin America. We should instead be working with our neighbors.
The U.S. cannot remains so preoccupied with its own Covid-19 outbreak that it makes a bad situation worse in Latin America, writes Antonio De Loera-Brust. Our fates are too intertwined.
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Review: How the Weimar Republic paved the way to its own ruin
Benjamin Carter Hett’s ‘The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic’ shows how a flawed but genuine democracy could give way to the vilest regime imaginable.
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Review: The backlash against globalization
In his new book, Ian Bremmer predicts that soon Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, Egypt, China and many others will all have their own Marie Le Pens and Steve Bannons.
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Review: Latinos are protagonists in the American story
Rejecting the implications of the label “minority,” Carrie Gibson tells the entire 500-year history of Spanish-speaking peoples in what is now the United States.