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 Vol. 139 Issue 015 (September 14 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Climate facts, women at Vatican II POINT-AND-CLICK FACT-CHECKING One would think that a certain degree of healthy skepticism would have led Richard W. Miller and Commonweal to fact-check...
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Catholics & Party Politics
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From the Editors Catholics & Party Politics Both presidential campaigns are calling this election a choice between two starkly different visions of America. At least on that score both are right....
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Commonweal Online
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COMMONWEAL ONLINE HISTORY LESSON From the dotCommonweal post “A Strategy for the Center-Left,” by Peter Nixon: The National Catholic Reporters John Allen published an intriguing column on the...
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Executive Overreach
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Garnett, Richard W.
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ELECTION 2012 Richard W. Garnett Executive Overreach HOW BOTH PARTIES HAVE IGNORED THE CONSTITUTION For campaign operatives and cable-news anchors, it is a job requirement to insist earnestly,...
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Diversion at the Piano
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Hill, Nellie
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DIVERSION AT THE PIANO The early winter light is so bright I can’t see the page, as if I’m writing blind. I hear singing and write that, following sounds. The white fog clears with no sound; birds...
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Two Parties, One Policy
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Wittes, Benjamin; Singh, Ritika
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Benjamin Wittes & Ritika Singh Two Parties, One Policy WASHINGTON'S NEW CONSENSUS ON TERRORISM Political parties in the United States, like a spatting couple in a bad marriage, have been fighting...
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Imagined Unity
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Young, Robin Darling
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VATICAN II AT FIFTY An Imagined Unity Henri de Lubac & the Ironies of Ressourcement Robin Darling Young The Catholics of this country have fallen into habit with their religion, to the point...
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Boom Times Ahead?
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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Boom Times Ahead? Probably. But Will Washington Make the Most of Them? Charles R. Morris The consensus outlook for the U.S. economy is, to put it mildly, pretty bleak. The boomers are retiring,...
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The Road to Emmaus Reconsidered
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Hickman, Lou Ella
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THE ROAD TO EMMAUS RECONSIDERED their hearts burned because the Scriptures burned within Him longing to be shared like bread —Lou Ella Hickman,...
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Summer Movies
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva superfluous 'THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN,' 'THE DARK KNIGHT RISES,' AND 'THE BOURNE LEGACY' This summer at the movies was the season of franchises. Spider-Man spun himself into...
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Why Nations Fail
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Bane, Mary Jo
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BOOKS Mary Jo Bane Vicious Circles Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson Crown, $30, 544 pp. Helping the poor in the developing world...
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Perilous Glory
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Stevenson, Jonathan
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Jonathan Stevenson Whatever Works Perilous Glory The Rise of Western Military Power John France Yale University Press, $35, 447 pp. The West Point military historian John France has written a...
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The Spirit of Compromise & Our Divided Political Heart
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Cochran, Carroll
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David Carroll Cochran Winner Take Nothing The Spirit of Compromise Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson Princeton University Press, $24.95, 256...
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Stolen Air
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Domestico, Anthony
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Anthony Domestico Counting Down to Silence Stolen Air Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam Selected and translated by Christian Wiman Ecco, $15.99, 128 pp. Reviewing poetry in translation is a...
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Memoirs of a Revolutionary
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Scialabba, George
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George Scialabba Witness Memoirs of a Revolutionary Victor Serge Translated by Peter Sedgwick with George Paizis New York Review of Books, $17.95, 521 pp. A stanza from Bertolt Brecht’s poem...
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Religion Booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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Religion Booknotes Lawrence S. Cunningham Infinity Dwindled to Infancy A Catholic and Evangelical Christology Edward T Oakes, SJ Eerdmans, $44, 459 pp. What is “Catholic and Evangelical...
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Unquarantined Grief
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Phillips, Mark
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THE LAST WORD Unquarantined Grief Mark Phillips If a novelist were to have his protagonist reading Camus' The Plague mere hours before learning that his wife has cancer, the irony would be cheap,...
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Vol. 139 Issue 016 (September 28 2012)
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