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 Vol. 135 Issue 017 (October 10 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Founded in 1924 letters Commonweal . October 10, 2008 Editor Paul Baumann Managing Editor Patrick Jordan Associate Editors Grant Gallicho, Matthew...
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Editorial
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From the Editors Don’t Vote ‘Yay’ Every election year Catholics are asked, by bishops or political activists, to uphold Catholic values when they vote. They are told they must vote...
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Spare Every Expense, Except One
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McGowan, Jo
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columnists Jo McGowan Spare Every Expense, Except One My MoTHeR’s oBITuARy Whenmymother,PatriciaMcGowan, died in late June, we chose the cheapest coffin for her burial. The...
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The Fall
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Pfaff, William
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William Pfaff The Fall oRIGINAL sIN & fRee-MARkeT cAPITALIsM Karl Marx, were he still about, would surely be interested in the report that unregulated free-market...
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And Baby Makes Two
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Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe
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Short take Barbara Dafoe Whitehead And Baby Makes Two WHy TeeN PReGNANcy Is oN THe RIse The McCain-Palin campaign says it’s for change, and it...
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After the Meltdown
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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Issues 2008. Charles R. Morris After the Meltdown WHAT THe BAILouT WoN’T soLve We are now well embarked on year two of the great Credit Crunch. And, yes, this is the same crisis...
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Dervish
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Jewell, Michael David
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Commonweal . October 10, 2008 Dervish Dizzy with confusion and a terrible bliss, the diseased mouse that I find twirling madly at the head of my stairs brings a message despite the...
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Government Is Not the Problem
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Madrick, Jeff
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Articles Government Is Not the Problem Thirty Years of Bad Economic Policy Jeff Madrick Conventional wisdom in America today holds that high levels of taxes and government...
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The King's Mother
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Glen, Genevieve
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laxity of federal oversight has taken an obvious toll— most notably in the credit crisis of 2008, but also in areas such as food and drug safety, airline traffic and safety, and...
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White Lies of Dover
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Harper, Eugene W. Jr.
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White Lies of Dover The Limits of Darwinism Eugene W. Harper Jr. For what seemed like a generation, the late Carl Sagan was the voice of science on public television. With an...
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Mad Men
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Wren, Celia
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media Celia Wren Costume Drama ‘MAD MeN’ oN AMc Marketing has become the lifeblood of American culture—witness this election season’s theat rics, from photo-ops...
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Rouault at Boston College
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O'Donovan, Leo J.
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Art Leo J. O’Donovan Unmasked GeoRGes RouAuLT AT BosToN coLLeGe WhentheFrenchartistGeorges Rouault died on February 13, 1958, he was given a state funeral and buried at Paris’s...
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Nixonland
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Perlstein, Rick
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books Melissa Matthes A Checkered Past Nixonland The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Rick Perlstein Scribner, $37.50, 896 pp. “Themaincharacterin...
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How Fiction Works
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Wood, James
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William H. Pritchard Expert Counsel How Fiction Works James Wood Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22, 288 pp. In his brief introduction to this valuable and entertaining primer,...
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Exiles
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Hansen, Ron
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How Fiction Fails Mollie Wilson O’Reilly or historical testimony.” The result is a novelwithtoomuchfactandnotenough fiction, a story told by a narrator on lessthanfamiliar terms with his...
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After the Baby Boomers
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Wuthnow, Robert
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al exile. The most compelling passages concerning Hopkins are expositional accounts of his conversion, his Jesuit formation, the consternation provoked by his poetry—and these would be...
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Our Community, Our Choice
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Portier-Young, Anathea
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the last Word Our Community, Our Choice Anathea Portier-Young Thirty-five years after Roe v. Wade, many Catholics wonder why the country still does not protect the life of every...
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Vol. 135 Issue 018 (October 24 2008)
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