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 Vol. 135 Issue 007 (April 11 2008)
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Vol. 135 Issue 008 (April 25 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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letters Commonweal . April 25, 2008 Editor
Paul Baumann
Managing Editor
Patrick Jordan
Associate Editors
Grant Gallicho, Matthew Boudway
Production Editor & Webmaster ...
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EDITORIAL
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From the Editors Pregnant Pause
T here was nothing surprising in the testimony given to Congress earlier this mouth by General David H. Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan C....
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Found, Not Made
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Garvey, John
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John Garvey Found, Not Made
WHAT THE inCARnATion MEAnS One of the advantages of living in my Queens neighbor hood is that on weekday mornings I get to watch little children...
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Olympian Hurdles
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Pfaff, William
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William Pfaff Olympian Hurdles
CHinA, THE ToRCH & TiBET The International Olympic Committee’s decision to grant China the right to organize the 2008 summer games was another...
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A Stirring at the Border
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Miles, Jack
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Jack Miles A Stirring at the Border iMMiGRATion AS THE SLEEPER iSSuE of THE noVEMBER ELECTion I n the upcoming presidential election, the defining issues for the Democrats seem to be the...
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Pomp & Piety
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Norton, Sue
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Sue Norton Pomp & Piety PASSinG on THE fAiTH AfTER PASSinG on THE fAiTH R ecently my son made his First Holy Communion. I use capital letters because everything about the event seemed to...
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Reforming the Vatican
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Reese, Thomas J.
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Reforming the Vatican
What the Church Can Learn from Other Institutions Thomas J. Reese T oo often when someone proposes the reform of church structures, the reformer is attacked for...
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The Cult of Capitalism
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Sibley, Angus
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The Cult of Capitalism
Hayek, Novak & the Limits of Laissez Faire
Angus Sibley W hen laissez-faire economists believe in God, they are usually certain that he is one of them. The...
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Stop-Loss
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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Rand Richards Cooper Warriors’ Code
KiMBERLy PEiRCE’S ‘SToP-LoSS’ The opening sequence of the new Iraq war film, Stop-Loss, portrays a U.S. Army squad caught in a terrifying...
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They Knew They Were Right
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Heilbrunn, Jacob
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William A. Galston Anecdotal Evidence
They Knew They Were Right The Rise of the Neocons Jacob Heilbrunn Doubleday, $26, 336 pp. T he rise(s) and fall(s) of neoconservatism is an...
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A Treatise of Civil Power
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Hill, Geoffrey
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Denis Donoghue Weighed & Weighted
A Treatise of Civil Power Geoffrey Hill Yale University Press, $16, 64 pp. G eoffrey Hill’s new book takes its title from Milton’s Treatise of Civil...
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Edmund Wilson Literary Essays and Reviews
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Westbrook, Robert
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This alludes to Milton’s The Readie & Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (1660): Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and...
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Fieldwork
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Berlinski, Mischa
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well as a sense of morality.” In his lectures, Gauss “would show you what an author was aiming at and the methods he had adopted to achieve his ends.” He had a keen eye for the unstated assumptions...
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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
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Kolakowski, Leszek
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We can end hunger in our time ... To end hunger in God’s world, we must change the conditions that allow hunger to persist. When we turn our faith into action, God uses our voices to reach our...
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Luke Acts
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Washburn, Susanne
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The last Word
Commonweal . April 25, 2008 Luke Acts Susanne Washburn C atholics with long memories know the pre–Vatican II parish “mission.” On for two or three weeks, it had a...
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