LETTERS Discerning Dulles; blessing Baum; baking Latin MISSING MATTER In his review of Patrick Carey's biography of Cardinal Avery Dulles ("An Ignatian Spirit," January 13), J. Matthew Ashley...
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From the Editors Game Over? When Republicans in Congress finally passed a bill extending the payroll tax cut in December, they booby-trapped it with an unrelated provision. The bill required...
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Jo McGowan Two Homes, Two Lives BRINGING iNDiA TO AMERICA AND AMERiCA TO iNDiA I come home from India to the United States every year now to visit my dad. There he is in all his rakish charm,...
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Plutocracy or Democracy? How Bad Policies Brought Us a New Gilded Age David Carroll Cochran It is clear by now that the state of the U.S. economy will be the primary issue in this year's...
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Better Than War? An Exchange about UN Sanctions Sanctioning Death in iraq Joy Gordon When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the consequences were felt well beyond those two countries. The...
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Practical Idealism How Sargent Shriver Built the Peace Corps Jamie Price On January 18, 2011, Sargent Shriver died at the grand old age of ninety-five. His passing came half a century—almost to...
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WAR Some centuries ago Powerful clerics In order to attain A perfect orthodoxy Banished the very Lord of Charity And sent their soldiers out To bind and burn Some stubborn scholar Or...
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Richard Alleva Spooks 'TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY' & 'THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO' The gentleman approached the bookstore's salesclerk and asked, "Have you got that new book with my friend,...
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Anthony Domestico Brains... Zone One, the latest work of fiction by Colson Whitehead, is a zombie novel. Sure, it's a "literary" zombie novel, with better writing and more complex characterization...
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A Part, Not Apart Michael Seavey From junior high school through college, I drifted from the church. But after college and before I was about to move out of state for graduate studies, I...
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