An introduction to all the books, new and old, profiled in our Spring Literary Review 2021.
Of Many Things
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The contradictions of Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview
Everyone has a family that involves some painful history, and few of us would want to tell Oprah and the whole world about it.
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The problem with treating our politicians like messiahs
A fallen world requires a divine redeemer. An imperfect society just needs a better plan and better people to execute it, Matt Malone, SJ writes.
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The March for Life will look different this year. But our pro-life commitment is unchanged.
There is no part of our Jesuit ministry that is untouched by the devastating consequences of abortion.
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Trump deserved to be impeached—but our nation’s problems run deeper than one man
President Trump’s departure from Washington, D.C., will not heal the country in the ways we tend to think it will. The cycle of rivalry and violence will likely recur.
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Americans equate beauty with youth. That’s no way to build a country.
In this country, we value youth but we don’t value beauty, mainly because we think they are the same thing. But beauty is related to memory in a way youth cannot be.
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Matt Malone, S.J.: Christmas reminds us that there is only one redeemer (and it’s not the president)
The United States is a unique achievement in a fallen world.
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No, court-packing won’t fix the Supreme Court (or the rest of our broken politics)
Franklin Roosevelt tried court packing in 1937. It was a bad idea then, and it is a bad idea now, Matt Malone, S.J. writes.
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Books beyond imagining: an introduction to America’s 2020 Fall literary issue
Twice a year, America publishes special literary issues devoted in their entirety to the world of literature. In Fall Books 2020, a variety of authors and genres are explored, from fiction to poetry to biography and more.
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We need to recover the sense of fun in politics
Sixty years ago this October, a 13-car train pulled out of Union Station in Washington, D.C., headed south. It was the L.B.J. Special, named for its most important passenger, Lyndon B. Johnson, who was that year’s Democratic nominee for vice president of the United States.