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Paul Elie

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Confronting Georgetown’s History of Enslavement

In “The 272,” Rachel L. Swarns sets out how the country’s first Catholic university profited from the sale of enslaved people.

by Paul Elie via The New Yorker on June 27, 2023
How Racist Was Flannery O’Connor?

She has become an icon of American letters. Now readers are reckoning with another side of her legacy.

by Paul Elie via The New Yorker on June 15, 2020

The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s

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Still from the "Last Temptation of Christ" depicting Jesus on the cross.

Among the Blasphemers

The ’80s I thought I remembered now feel very different to me.

by Gerald Howard via n+1 on July 24, 2025

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