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CRITIC AT LARGE JOHN RODDEN Gogol or Hohol? Was the great writer Russian, Ukrainian, or both? Was Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol a writer without a fatherland? Or was he a writer with two...
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JOHN RODDEN How the Irish Changed Penance The history of a sacrament Most Catholics are probably unaware that what we today call the sacrament of Reconciliation existed in a completely...
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SHORT TAKES JOHN RODDEN AND JOHN P. ROSSI From Ireland to Israel, and Beyond Why the Irish War of Independence still matters—and is too often forgotten On St. Patrick's Day 2019, Americans all...
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Berlin Stories Misreading the 1936 Olympics John Rodden & John P. Rossi Infamously known as "the Nazi Olympics" or "Hitler's Games," the 1936 Olympics are—like so much else associated with the...
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The Cold War on Ice Coming of Age in East Germany John Rodden Twenty-one years after German reunification, Communist East Ger-many—or the German Democratic Republic, as it officially and...
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ability to pay. Even immigration status can't trump treatment: in 2004, the U.S. House of Representatives balked at pro- posed legislation that would exclude il- legal aliens from the protection of...
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John Rodden 'BARBED-WIRE SUNDAY' The day Berlin was cut apart The 300 watchtowers, the twenty-two bunkers, the guns, the border guards, the dogs, the death strip, Checkpoint Charlie—they're all...
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SURVIVING MAO Nicholas Clifford Colors of the Mountain is one of a growing number of Cultural Revolution survival stories appearing in English. Liang Heng's Son of the Revolution,...
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of "Survivor" on TV, but it will be close. "Survivor," in fact, revealed a good deal about our civic life. Except in moments, it wasn't about the physical diffi- culties of survival:...
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REPORT FROM BUCHENWALD LIBERATION FROM LIES USES (& ABUSES) OF HISTORY Later this month, former inmates from thirty-five nations will meet at the Buchenwald concentration camp to commemorate the...
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GOING BANANAS A STORY OF FORBIDDEN FRUIT Who would have ever thought the biggest trade issue in last year's European Community (EC) negotiations in Brussels would be regulations about...
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have been involved in the writing of the text, and with no passion or life of its own. I recently overheard one of my colleagues complaining about having to teach Renaissance poetry to under-...
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A VERY PARTIAL RECLAMATION PROJECT THE CASE OF COMRADE ORWELL JOHN RODDEN Last May 13 the Literary Gazette, the organ of the Soviet Writers' Union, published a full-page extract from the most...
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five. It is a seamless movie, unfolding organically and appar- ently without effort; its effect, like the placing of piece next to piece in a mosaic, is cumulative. But it is not an easy movie. One...
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Gogol or Hohol?
(June 2022)
