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Vol. 137 Issue 017 (October 8 2010)
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Vol. 137 Issue 018 (October 22 2010)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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4 LETTERS
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letters Of hearts & minds & age INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT Regarding Richard Cohen's review "Burns. Tom Burns." (September 24): It is to the great credit of my friend and former Financial Times...
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5 EDITORIAL The Fundamental Force
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From the Editors The Fundamental Force have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the...
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6 dotCOMMONWEAL
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dotCOMMONWEAL PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE From Paul Moses's post, "The St. Francis Pledge & Climate Change": Cardinal Roger Mahony has launched an environmen-tal-sustainability effort, timed to the Feast...
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8 Long Goodbye
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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COLUMNISTS Cathleen Kaveny Long Goodbye WHY SOME DEVOUT CATHOLICS ARE LEAVING THE CHURCH Several Catholics I know and respect have recently chosen to worship in other Christian churches as a...
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10 Tax Myths
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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Charles R. Morris Tax Myths IT'S NOT AS BAD AS YOU THINK Effective Federal Tax Rate (Percent): All Federal Taxes 1979 19871 19942 20003 20044 Top 1% 37 31 36 33 31 Top...
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12 The Fog of Postwar
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Hayes, Patrick J.
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SHORT TAKE Patrick J. Hayes The Fog of Postwar LETTER FROM SIERRA LEONE John Kalawa, the softspoken grandson of a Limba king, tells me, "I will come to collect you at 5:00." "Fine," I say. I...
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16 Further Adrift
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Steinfels, Peter
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ARTICLES Further Adrift The American Church's Crisis of Attrition It is not often that someone at a New York dinner party calls for a count of religious affiliations, and I cannot recall exactly...
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18 Puppy Love
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Menashe, Samuel
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Puppy Love Nipples, precise As a dog's dugs Suckle him —Samuel...
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"21 Historian, Critic, Prophet"
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Blake, Casey Nelson
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Historian, Critic, Prophet Christopher Lasch & the American Predicament Casey Nelson Blake here is only one cure for the mal' ady that afflicts our culture," the late Christopher Lasch wrote,...
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29 Wall Street
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva Overachievers 'WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS' & 'THE SOCIAL NETWORK' Has there ever been a public crisis less accessible to the camera than the 2008 bursting of our...
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31 Sherlock
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Wren, Celia
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MEDIA Celia Wren 'The Game's On' PBS'S 'SHERLOCK' In an age of Google Earth and Twitter, when Facebook knows more about you than your mother does, and advertisers track your every move online,...
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32 The Masque of Africa
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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FALL BOOKS Rand Richards Cooper Curmudgeon on Safari The Masque of Africa Glimpses of African Belief V. S. Naipaul Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 256 pp. Born in 1932 into a middle-class Indian...
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36 Washington Rules
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Wolfe, Alan
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Alan Wolfe Ike Was Right Washington Rules America's Path to Permanent War Andrew J. Bacevich Metropolitan Books, $25, 304 pp. In October 2009, I had the pleasure of attending an Ideas Festival...
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38 Freedom
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Pritchard, William H.
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William H. Pritchard A World of False Choices Freedom Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28, 576 pp. Nine years ago, Jonathan Fran-zen published The Corrections, his third novel but the...
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40 American Grace
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Galston, William A.
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William A. Qalston Getting Along American Grace How Religion Divides and Unites Us Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell Simon & Schuster, $30, 688 pp. In American Grace, co-authors Robert D....
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42 The Publisher
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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Andrew J. Bacevich God's Chosen People The Publisher Henry Luce and His American Century Alan Brinkley Alfred A. Knopf, $35, 560 pp. Old geezers tend to collect things: coins or stamps,...
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44 Dreyfus
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Kselman, Thomas
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Thomas Kselman Unpredictable Alliances Dreyfus Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century Ruth Harris Metropolitan Books, $35, 560 pp. In 1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a rising star on...
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46 Getting Wet
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Tuttle, Jonathan
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the last word Getting Wet Jonathan Tuttle I came early to this year's Easter Vigil. I wanted to get a seat in the back, right beside the baptismal font. I was not being baptized that night. I was...
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