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 Vol. 135 Issue 009 (May 9 2008)
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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letters Commonweal . May 9, 2008 Editor
Paul Baumann
Managing Editor
Patrick Jordan
Associate Editors
Grant Gallicho, Matthew Boudway
Production Editor & Webmaster ...
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Editorial Benedict in America
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From the Editors Benedict in America
N early every observer and commentator judged Benedict XVI’s six-day visit last month to Washington, D.C., and New York City a great success. In his...
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The Right Questions
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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Cathleen Kaveny The Right Questions
CaThoLiC CoLLegeS & PoP CuLTuRe Predictably, spring brought the annual tussles about whether or not The Va gina Monologues ought to be...
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Two Cheers for John McCain
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Carlin, David R.
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David R. Carlin Two Cheers for John McCain
how The DeMoCRaTS LoST My voTe E. M. Forster once wrote the book Two Cheers for Democracy. In that same spirit I say, “Two cheers for John...
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Late Conversion
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Bordwell, Harold
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Harold Bordwell Late Conversion waS RiMBauD a SaiNT? W hen Arthur Rimbaud reached Marseilles in August 1891, he had only three months to live. He had come from Roche, in the Ardennes,...
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Modernity & Belief
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Steinfels, Peter
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Modernity & Belief
Charles Taylor’s ‘A Secular Age’
Peter Steinfels I n 1949, Karl Jaspers introduced the notion of an “axial age” to describe a few centuries around the middle of the...
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Ordinary Flowers
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Stryk, Dan
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Commonweal . May 9, 2008 Ordinary Flowers Blind yet sighted suddenly, would the eye first grasp, breath quickening, that golden inner laughter of the dandelion— tingling born from...
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Married Life 21
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva Confused Sympathies
‘MaRRieD LiFe’ & ‘21’ Farce is the first cousin of melodrama. Both employ the same devices: people entering rooms at precisely the wrong moment and...
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1940
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Neugeboren, Jay
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Peter Quinn Hitler’s Doctor
1940 Jay Neugeboren Two Dollar Radio, $15, 284 pp. T ruth in reviewing requires I admit being not only a fan of historical fiction but a sometime...
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Resurrection
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Levenson, Kevin J. Madigan - Jon D.
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Michael Peppard fusion.” Moreover, the authors portray resurrection as “a neglected continuity” between Christians and Jews. This too Something Else in Common will pique interest, since most...
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Life Class
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Barker, Pat
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nied by Jews and Christians alike. The Molly Finn authors admit contemporary Jews are “overwhelmingly likely...to doubt or neglect the resurrection of the dead and, Over There ultimately, to think...
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The Age of American Unreason
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Jacoby, Susan
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Commonweal . May 9, 2008 Eric Bugyis Junk Thought
The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby Pantheon Books, $26, 384 pp. I remember when I first tried it. I said it would be a...
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Sex and the Soul
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Freitas, Donna
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Jean Hughes Raber betokened by chastity rings and ceremonies in which girls pledge never to kiss any men but their daddies and their Faith & the Hook-up Culture husbands. In short, Evangelical...
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Picasso
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Richardson, John
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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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Don't Assign These Books
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Haught, John F.
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The last Word
Don’t Assign These Books John F. Haught T he best-selling atheistic manifestoes by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens are now in the paperback phase of...
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Vol. 135 Issue 010 (May 23 2008)
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