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Vol. 136 Issue 014 (August 14 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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LETTERS
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Letters Bailouts & stakeholders; the OAS & Cuba UNFAIR ADVANTAGE I am not a member of the United Auto Workers, or a holder of GM stocks or bonds, or a hedge-fund manager in Greenwich,...
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In Defense of Politics
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EDITORIAL
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From the Editors In Defense of Politics Catholics who like the word “solidarity” are sometimes suspicious of the word “subsidiarity.” They worry it’s a euphemism for...
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The Breath of Life
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Garvey, John
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Columnist John Garvey The Breath of Life CHRISTIAN ECOLOGY BEGINS WITH INCARNATION The idea that we must be as good as we can be to this damaged world is essential, as is the idea that it...
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End of Discussion
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Meilaender, Gilbert
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Short Takes Gilbert Meilaender End of Discussion WHY OBAMA SHOULD HAVE KEPTHE BIOETHICS COUNCIL I have taught ethics in the religion departments of several very different colleges and...
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Economics of Charity
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Finn, Daniel
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Daniel Finn Economics of Charity POPE BENEDICT’S ‘CARITAS IN VERITATE’ Catholic social teaching, whether promulgated by Ambrose of Milan in the fourth century or Benedict XVI in the...
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Canal Boat Portage of the Alleghenies
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Cantwell, Kevin
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Canal Boat Portage of the Alleghenies U. S. Grant, 17 years old, on his way to West Point In this heat the sunflowers cannot lift their heads nor the mockingbird cease, but the canal rises,...
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Not Bold Enough
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McCarraher, Eugene
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Eugene McCarraher Not Bold Enough WHY DID BENEDICT PULL HIS PUNCHES? This summer witnessed the publication of Caritas in veritate, Pope Benedict XVI’s long-awaited encyclical on economics....
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The War We Can't Win
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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Articles The War We Can’t Win Afghanistan & the Limits of American Power Andrew J. Bacevich History deals rudely with the pretensions of those who presume to determine its course. In an...
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The Cost of Peace
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Hafvenstein, Joel
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The Cost of Peace In Afghanistan Success Requires Risk Joel Hafvenstein The Obama administration is clearly determined to reverse Afghanistan’s slide into chaos. Since January 2009 we have...
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Brooklyn, Bewitched
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Sayers, Valerie
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Fiction Brooklyn, Bewitched Valerie Sayers All Brooklyn is under a spell. Radios blare from every apartment—the game sounds as if it’s being broadcast from one distorted loudspeaker—and...
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Public Enemies
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Alleva, Richard
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Screen Richard Alleva Sound & Fury ‘PUBLIC ENEMIES’ In what is probably his best work, Heat, director Michael Mann turned a typical copsandrobbers scenario into a war epic. The...
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James Ensor at MoMA
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Anreus, Alejandro
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Art Alejandro Anreus A Face in the Crowd JAMES ENSOR AT MOMA In 1885 the Belgian artist James Ensor began a series of six drawings of the life of Christ. He titled them The Aureoles of...
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The Making of a Catholic President
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McCartin, James P.
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Books James P. McCartin Profiles in Bigotry The Making of a Catholic President Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 Shaun Casey Oxford University Press, $27.95, 272 pp. As Richard Nixon and John...
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Dead Aid
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Dufresne, Bethe
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Bethe Dufresne Money for Nothing? Dead Aid Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa Dambisa Moyo Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24, 208 pp. It’s anyone’s guess whether...
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Frank's Map
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Quinn, Peter
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The Last Word Frank’s Map Peter Quinn Among the distinguishing characteristics of Irish Catholics—in America as much as Ireland— was our version of omertà: the code of silence. We never...
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