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Vol. 139 Issue 019 (November 9 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Letters
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LETTERS Taxes & prosperity, single-issue politics BLUNT INSTRUMENTS James Kloppenberg's article "Two Cities, Two Americas" (October 26) is refreshing in its optimism that America's elected...
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Commonweal Online
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COMMONWEAL ONLINE DISTORTION FIELD From the dotCommonwealpost "A Right to Be Healthy ?" by J. Peter Nixon: In June, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput was interviewed by the National Catholic...
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Bad Influence
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From the Editors Bad Influence Rep. Paul Ryan has long enjoyed a reputation as a wonk's wonk. Here was a Republican politician happy to engage in substantive conversation about tax policy, debt,...
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Out The Front Door
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Nonomen, Fr.
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COLUMNIST Fr. Nonomen Out the Front Door WHY GOOD PRIESTS QUIT It's hardly news that in recent years some priests have been cast out of the church and defrocked. Some are in the middle of...
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Economics 101
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Clark, Charles Michael Andres
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SHORT TAKE Charles Michael Andres Clark Economics 101 STARVING THE GOVERNMENT WON'T FIX THE ECONOMY Throughout this year's campaign season, the Republican Party promised to reduce the nation's...
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A Beggar To The End
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Bordwell, Harold
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Harold Bordwell A Beggar to the End LÉON BLOY'S CRANKY GENIUS Invective seldom harms the reputation of a writer. "A Frenchman must be always talking," Samuel Johnson said, "whether he knows...
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At The Catholic Worker House: 1968
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Savoie, Terry
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AT THE CATHOLIC WORKER HOUSE: 1968 "There are nothing but gifts on this poor, poor Earth.' C. Milosz Flitting & chattering to herself, someone’s mother hovers above her bowl of soup with a thin,...
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Out Of Step
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Callahan, Daniel
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ARTICLE Out of Step God & Me at Harvard & Yale Daniel Callahan To have a career reflecting on ethics requires three skills: to know oneself, to understand the culture in which one's life and...
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The Master
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva Hooch & Hokum 'THE MASTER' In one respect, Paul Thomas Anderson stands apart from even the best of living American directors: he is both a fabricator of spectacle and a...
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What Money Can'T Buy
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Scialabba, George
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BOOKS George Scialabba Fire Sale What Money Can't Buy The Moral Limits of Markets Michael Sandel Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 244 pp. Perhaps each of the seven deadly sins must have its...
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In God'S Shadow
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PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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Bernard G. Prusak On Earth, Not in Heaven In God's Shadow Politics in the Hebrew Bible Michael Walzer Yale University Press, $28, 256 pp. This book, the eminent political theorist Michael...
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The History And Future Of Bioethics
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Lauritzen, Paul
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Paul Lauritzen Contested Norms The History and Future of Bioethics A Sociological View John H. Evans Oxford University Press, $45, 199 pp. In a recent New York Times piece, the philosopher...
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The Ground
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Joseph, Lawrence
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Lawrence Joseph Song of Himself The Ground Rowan Ricardo Phillips Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23, 72 pp. Louis Zukofsky wrote that "the test of poetry is the range of pleasure it affords as sight,...
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The Burial
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Doyle, Brian
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THE LAST WORD The Burial Brian Doyle There's nothing quite like watching what used to be your brother being lowered into a hole in the Illinois earth to remind you that every moment is a universe...
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Vol. 139 Issue 020 (November 23 2012)
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