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 Vol. 141 Issue 001 (January 10 2014)
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Vol. 141 Issue 002 (January 24 2014)
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Passing on the faith, married priests THE CHALLENGE OF INTERMARRIAGE Regarding your "Raising Catholic Kids" symposium (December 6, 2013): I am a practicing Catholic father married to a...
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Reforming the NSA
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From the Editors Reforming the NSA Many Americans were disturbed, and rightly so, by the extent of domestic electronic surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency as revealed in the...
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Moving Day
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McGowan, Jo
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COLUMNISTS Jo McGowan Moving Day SENDING DAD FROM HOME TO A HOME There's nothing easy about watching one's father drift out of his own life. Alzheimer's, old age, senility—whatever you call...
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Blank Checks
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Blank Checks THE PERIL OF LETTING AN ALLY DETERMINE OUR FOREIGN POLICY No competent adult would write a blank check allowing the recipient to fill in the amount. Blank...
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Darwin's Tree of Life
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Johnson, Elizabeth A.
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ARTICLES Darwin's Tree of Life The Grandeur of a View that Changed the World Elizabeth A. Johnson Ask the beasts and they will teach you," we read in Job (12:7). My new book takes its title from...
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American Innocence?
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Fredericks, James L.
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American Innocence Niebuhr & the Ironies of History: An Exchange James L. Fredericks Andrew Bacevich, a regular and perceptive contributor to Commonweal, has called Rein-hold Niebuhr's The Irony...
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Springtime in Chicago in November
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Robbins, Michael
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SPRINGTIME IN CHICAGO IN NOVEMBER Springtime in Chicago in November. My forty-first year to heaven. My left hand wants to know what my right hand is doing. Oh. Sorry I asked. First comes love,...
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American Innocence?
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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Andrew J. Bacevich As a source of insight into the wellsprings of U.S. foreign policy, Reinhold Niebuhr's The Irony of American History is an invaluable text. If you want to understand the...
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Philomena Saving Mr. Banks
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva Odd Couples 'PHILOMENA' & 'SAVING MR. BANKS' Philomena is the kind of movie that compels a reviewer to say what it isn't before trying to say what it is. That's because the...
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Fire and Ashes
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Dionne, E. J. Jr.
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BOOKS E. J. Dionne Jr. Not Beanbag Fire and Ashes Success and Failure in Politics Michael Ignatieff Harvard University Press, $24.95, 224 pp. Reading Michael Ignatieff's reflective and...
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Heretics and Heroes
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Noble, Thomas F. X.
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Thomas F. X. Noble Squeaky Hinge Heretics and Heroes How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World Thomas Cahill Nan A. Talese, $29.95, 368 pp. This is a very difficult...
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Story of a Secret State
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Lukes, Igor
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Igor Lukes Witness Story of a Secret State My Report to the World Jan Karski Georgetown University Press, $16.95, 464 pp. The title of this book promises an insider's perspective on Armia...
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Song & Error
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Ripatrazone, Nick
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Nick Ripatrazone Borrowed Voices Song & Error Averill Curdy Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23, 112 pp. In "Northwest Passage," a poem that exemplifies the aesthetic of Averill Curdy's debut...
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The Crewcut
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Doyle, Brian
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THE LAST WORD The Crewcut Brian Doyle One day in elementary school a boy on the playground punched a nun in the belly. His name was Billy and her name was Marie. It was an accident. She had come...
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