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I saw this photo while flipping through the Times this morning, and at first I thought it might be a new installation by the artist Richard Serra [1]. Instead, it is an image [2], beautiful yet terrible, of a recently completed section of the fence the United States is building across dunes along the border with Mexican border. The shot was connected with a story [3] about the U.S.'s troubled relations with its southern neighbor.

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David Gibson is the director of Fordham’s Center on Religion & Culture.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Serra
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/03/25/world/25mexico_CA2.inline.ready.html
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