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      <image:caption>Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., where  the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and US Constitution are on display (photo by Kelvin Kay via Wikimedia Commons).</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/summer-2024/the-moral-failure-and-rational-politics-of-eit</loc>
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      <image:title>Summer 2024 - The Moral Failure and Rational Politics of “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Image adapted from a photo of the “Torture, Never Again” monument in Recife, Brasil. (Original photo by Thombr via Wikimedia Commons)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/summer-2024/there-is-no-rebound-biden-and-harris</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-09-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Summer 2024 - There Is No Rebound: An Emergency Option for Biden and Harris - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris greet guests at the White House Independence Day celebration. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/summer-2024/toward-a-reconciled-view-of-american-history</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-09-09</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Photo by Raul Petri on Unsplash</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/summer-2024/mater-si-buckley-no</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-09-03</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Photo courtesy the Louisiana Digital Library - Loyola Collection</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/fall-2024</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-27</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/fall-2024/beyond-the-presidency</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Fall 2024 - Beyond the Presidency: How to Heal the Nation’s Divisions - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Night Alarm: The Advance! by Charles West Cope, oil on canvas, 1871. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/fall-2024/is-trump-a-fascist</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-12-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Fall 2024 - Trump 2.0: Is He Really a Fascist? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Firefighters work to extinguish the Reichstag Fire of 1933 (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons).</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/fall-2024/the-time-is-now</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-12-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Fall 2024 - The Time Is Now: Defending Democracy Cannot Wait - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo by Brandon Mowinkel on Unsplash</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/fall-2024/rightwing-wokeness</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-12-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Fall 2024 - The Woke Right and America’s Cultural Revulsion - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Scatter the old world, build a new world,” 1967 Chinese propaganda poster by the Central Art Academy Blockprint combat group (photo: chineseposters.net).</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/fall-2024/party-foul</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-12-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Fall 2024 - Party Foul: How Kamala’s Loss Reflects Her Party’s Failures - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kamala Harris speaks at a rally in 2017. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/winter2025</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-04-11</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/winter2025/the-exhausted-center</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-04-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Winter 2025 - The Exhausted Center - Make it stand out</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/winter2025/america-needs-congressional-partisans</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-03-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Winter 2025 - America Needs Congressional Partisans - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/winter2025/nixon-and-the-elusiveness-of-social-welfare-compromise</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-03-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Winter 2025 - Nixon and the Elusiveness of Social Welfare Compromise - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Nixon welcomes Michael Newton (poster child for Better Hearing and Speech Month) to the White House in 1971. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/winter2025/withering-on-the-vine</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-03-17</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63cf3717f44b04570b5103f7/2a3b931c-5335-493c-a168-bcaa4a9658bd/HausheerBlog.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Winter 2025 - Withering on the Vine: Giving Young Policy Leaders a Voice to Save Liberal Democracy - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/winter2025/catholicism-the-common-good-and-the-state</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-03-13</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63cf3717f44b04570b5103f7/253a8716-27e6-4db9-bc72-332630a837dc/Charity.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Winter 2025 - Catholicism, the Common Good, and the State - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Charity, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, oil on canvas, 1859. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/winter2025/why-fund-aids-relief</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-03-10</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63cf3717f44b04570b5103f7/b88518f5-ae07-4a22-9491-9df1eaede4a8/AidsRibbon.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Winter 2025 - Why Fund AIDS Relief? A Q&amp;amp;A with Matthew Loftus - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/spring-2025</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-16</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/spring-2025/restoring-our-common-committment</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Spring 2025 - Restoring our Common Commitment: Nazi Salutes Must Not Be Allowed to go Mainstream - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/spring-2025/a-call-for-civic-peace</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-03</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63cf3717f44b04570b5103f7/0af236ba-8eba-4dc0-9f3e-f5b4e9922793/Assassination_of_president_William_McKinley%2C_1901.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Spring 2025 - A Call for Civic Peace</image:title>
      <image:caption>Artist depiction of the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901, by Achille Beltrame. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/spring-2025/federal-budget-rules-are-deepening-societal-divisions</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-06-16</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63cf3717f44b04570b5103f7/fe6210ab-bf6a-467c-8302-acf1fef307ea/Capitol.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Spring 2025 - Federal Budget Rules Are Deepening Societal Divisions - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The US Capitol in wintertime</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/spring-2025/on-hannahs-children</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-06-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Spring 2025 - On Hannah’s Children, an Interview with Catherine Pakaluk - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Maternal Kiss by Mary Cassatt, 1896. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/spring-2025/how-christians-ended-slavery</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-06-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Spring 2025 - How Christians Ended Slavery - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>One side of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society’s collection box, quoting 1 Corinthians 16:1. Circa 1850. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/summer-2025</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-10</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/summer-2025/versailles-reexamined</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-09</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63cf3717f44b04570b5103f7/dd60270b-8437-4335-a068-e1870de86628/Map1.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Summer 2025 - Why the Peace Really Failed: The Treaty of Versailles Reexamined - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A 1930 ethnographic map, showing the areas inhabited by ethnic Germans. (While generally accurate, two issues are of particular note. The cartographer considers Alsatians to be German, which is obviously controversial. Additionally, while there were sizable German diaspora populations in the East, this map overstates the areas they constituted a majority.) From the Lange-Diercke Saxon School Atlas, image via Wikimedia Commons.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Summer 2025 - Why the Peace Really Failed: The Treaty of Versailles Reexamined - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Expected Italian gains under the Pact of London. Image by Smol2204, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63cf3717f44b04570b5103f7/17e5af88-d112-4e27-8119-a1a219ae532f/Map3.5.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Summer 2025 - Why the Peace Really Failed: The Treaty of Versailles Reexamined - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>When the war ended, Germany still occupied most of Belgium and a vast territory in Eastern Europe, including the Baltics, Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine, and had expeditionary forces in Georgia and Finland. Images: US Military Academy (left); Wikimedia Commons (right).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Summer 2025 - Why the Peace Really Failed: The Treaty of Versailles Reexamined - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The potential borders of an independent Rhenish Republic. Image from Die Verträge über Besetzung und Räumung des Rheinlandes und die Ordonnanzen der interalliierten Rheinlandoberkommission in Coblenz, Berlin 1925 (Wikimedia Commons).</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/summer-2025/the-new-buzzword-representation</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Summer 2025 - The New Buzzword in America: Representation - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Chamber of the House of Representatives. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/summer-2025/the-new-consensus-against-the-liberal-consensus</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Summer 2025 - The New Consensus Against the Liberal Consensus: Reflections on Libcon 2025 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Watergate Hotel, where Libcon 2025 was held.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/summer-2025/if-the-foundations-be-destroyed</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Summer 2025 - If the Foundations Be Destroyed: Puritanism as the Fountainhead of American Greatness - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Puritan statue in Springfield, Massachusetts. Photo: Wikimedia Commons</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/summer-2025/franco-still-lives-in-their-hearts-the-new-rights-weird-obsession</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Summer 2025 - Franco Still Lives in Their Hearts: The New Right’s Weird Obsession - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A 1937 demonstration in Salamanca, Spain, celebrating the Francoist occupation of Gijón. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/fall-2025</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-25</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://thevitalcenter.com/fall-2025/the-diplomatic-revolution</loc>
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