Going through old files, America’s editors found a few interesting submissions (and rejections).
Ideas
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Dear Barack and Bruce: I’m a fan. But your new podcast is cringeworthy.
The new podcast by Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama seemed like it would be a compelling listening experience…but instead “Renegades” is often a squirmy mess.
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Rewatching ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is the perfect journey for the end of Lent (and quarantine)
Revisiting this classic story in this time of isolation offers a new perspective on quarantine, and indeed a new perspective on journeys themselves.
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Your guide to the four Jesuit schools in this year’s March Madness
A Jesuit university, Gonzaga, is the #1 seed in the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament. But three other Jesuit schools—Creighton, Loyola Chicago and Georgetown—are also poised for deep March Madness runs.
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Why Joe Biden keeps quoting Seamus Heaney on when ‘hope and history rhyme’
In this season of discontent in American society, however, Heaney’s words have become emblematic of President Biden’s greatest political challenge: to act as healer-in-chief.
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Meet your bicycle: the transportation incarnation of Catholic Social Teaching.
Bicycles are theologically sound. Ask Pope Francis.
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What Moses and NASA’s Mars Rover taught me about wonder and awe.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover touched ground on the red planet on Feb. 18 and today NASA announced some of its first discoveries.
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The New York City ballet brings new life to the parable of the Prodigal Son
George Balanchine’s jarring choreography breathes new life into a parable that itself upends expectations.
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Searching for Beauty—and God—in the Age of Instagram
At the same time I haven’t been recognizing beauty every time it is before me, I also haven’t been recognizing God. What if those disconnects are related?
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Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem revealed God—through its beauty
Amanda Gorman’s poem was like a lighting flash that spoke to eternal beauty