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 Vol. 137 Issue 003 (February 12 2010)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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letters Jersey-bashing, title trouble, fan mail For ShAME Commonweal’s eighty-fifth anniversary was brilliantly celebrated, as the pictures in the December 4, 2009 issue attest (“85th...
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EDITORIAL What Now?
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From the Editors What Now?
A s we go to press, the fate of President Barack Obama’s health-care reform legislation remains unclear. So do the prospects for his presidency and for the...
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Wasted Energy
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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Charles R. Morris Wasted Energy ThE ProblEM oF CliMATE-ChAnGE PoliTiCS I n the 1950s, the ignorant anti-Communism of Joe McCarthy energized the fellow-traveling Left, and nearly...
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Where's Our Stephen Douglas
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Henneberger, Melinda
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Melinda Henneberger Where’s Our Stephen Douglas?
Why hEAlTh-CArE rEForM iS WorTh ThE PoliTiCAl PriCE The other night I took my kids to Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., to see...
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Who Approves This Message?
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Shiffrin, Steven H.
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Steven H. Shiffrin Who Approves This Message? ThE SuPrEME CourT ovErTurnS CAMPAiGn-FinAnCE rEForM C asting aside sixty years of federal legislation and overturning rulings from 1990...
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To Keep a True Lent
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Herrick, Robert
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To Keep a True Lent Is this a Fast, to keep The Larder leane? And cleane? From fat of Veales, and Sheep? Is it to quit the dish Of Flesh, yet still To fill The platter high with Fish? Is it...
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'Está Perdido'
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Sorrentino, Joseph
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all photos © 2008 joseph sorrentino ‘Está Perdido’
The Crisis in Rural Mexico
Joseph Sorrentino A gapito stands in a field under the glare of the noon sun in Tlaquiltenango, Morelos,...
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The Lovely Bones A Single Man
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva Restless Spirits ‘ThE lovEly bonES’ & ‘A SinGlE MAn’ “You took the best / Now take the rest,” the blues singer offers her lover in despair. But Peter Jackson,...
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Concerning E. M. Forster
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Pritchard, William H.
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William H. Pritchard He’s Got Rhythm Concerning E. M. Forster Frank Kermode Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24, 192 pp. E very few years I offer a course in English prose writers,...
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American Radical
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Landers, Robert K.
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Commonweal . February 12, 2010 Forster’s “realistic structures” add up to something different from realism as it is found in Wells or Arnold Bennett. Probably the best remembered and most...
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The Engaged Intellect; Having the World in View
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Schwenkler, John
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John Schwenkler The Thinking Animal The Engaged Intellect Philosophical Essays John McDowell Harvard University Press, $45, 360 pp. Having the World in View Essays on Kant,...
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Commonweal Associates
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Thank you, Associates. This year Commonweal celebrates eighty-six years of providing a place for reflective, independent Catholic thought. This unique venture has allowed a wide variety of voices to...
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The Edward Skillin Society
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The Edward Skillin Society is named for Commonweal’s longtime publisher, editor, and guiding spirit, Edward Skillin (1904–2000), and recognizes those who have provided for Commonweal’s future...
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College Subscription Program
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The Commonweal Endowment is a fund that helps provide longer-term financial security for the magazine and its activities. Each year, a small draw from the Endowment helps support ongoing...
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The Reunion
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POWERS, WILLIAM F.
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The last Word The Reunion William F. Powers Cocktail in hand, I walked up to a group of three of my classmates at the gathering that marked the fiftieth anniversary of our ordination as...
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Vol. 137 Issue 004 (February 26 2010)
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