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The Doomed Faction

Imagine, for a moment, the state of a teenager in 2020: slouched, still in pajamas at 3 p.m., eyes glazed over from blue light and boredom after spending seven hours in farcically unenlightening online classes. The zombified student then receives a phone call or, worse, an email polling their feelings about eventually entering the workforce. Do you ...


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Forever War, Again

In the generation since 9/11, the United States has launched three major wars, all with the justification that they will protect the country and the world from Islamist terrorism. The latest, the Iran War, is proving hard to end and continues to threaten dangerous escalation, with the almost certain likelihood it will turn out to be yet another exer...


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Mitre Night on the South Side

In 2005, when the Chicago White Sox made their first successful World Series run since 1917, The New York Times ran a Sunday piece headlined “In White Sox Nation, the Borders Ar...


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A Fair Process?

On his last day of radiation treatment for prostate cancer, Fr. Michael Pfleger teared up as he hugged nurses and rang the bell in the hospital hallway, once for himself, once “for all the other people coming out o...


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What’s in
the Cards?

I sat in my friend Adeena’s Harlem apartment last summer, holding a deck of tarot cards. In response to her query about the state of her love life, I pulled the final card and set it in front of her: the Devil. A card that questions a person’s ability to discern whether a risky decision is self-liberating or self-limiting seemed like a generous in...


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