<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div id="gmail-:302" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div id="gmail-:303" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The Today's Issues group is meeting at 9:30 Sunday in the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church.  Everyone is welcome, all regular members are vaccinated.  For this Sunday we are continuing to discuss two articles from the May 27 issue of the New York Review of Books.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Michael Kazin, "<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sXCA_lw2mzP73fdSr6JdjqbCa0WKeY9jpXdi2HYVG1Q/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Ending the Kennedy Romance,</a>" a review of <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956</span></div>by Fredrik Logevall<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">  The first volume of Frederik Logevall’s biography of JFK reveals the scope of his ambition and the weakness of his political commitments.</span><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Ariel Dorfman, "<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_3jx2hgLH6tiEAdSbXVMYqIevr2sTar8VTi9tmAkEuk/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">A Taxonomy of Tyrants</a>," a review of <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">by Ruth Ben-Ghiat.  </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">How can one make sense of the alarming replication of malignant rulers in so many different countries over the past hundred years? Is it possible to include them all in one sweeping, cohesive vision, to marshal their heterogeneous manifestations inside the pages of a single book?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Copies of the readings are attached.  The discussion ends in time to attend the flower communion service in the sanctuay.</div><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hq gmail-gt" id="gmail-:59o" style="margin:15px 0px;clear:both;font-size:0.875rem;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div>