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Yale undergraduate Alison Hornstein became a national celebrity this past December when her guest Newsweek column challenged the inability of her classmates and professors to say that what happened on
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On Sept. 11 itself, and for days afterward, few reporters, commentators or public officials resisted the temptation to describe the attacks on New York and Washington as a “tragedy.” The
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Immediately after John Paul II received President Bush at Castel Gandolfo on 23 July, the spin-masters got to work — and made a hash of things. In his formal remarks,
The Opportunity to Be a Lincoln
Joseph Ellis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning study, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, reminds us that, when considering the historic contributions of such giants as George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson,
Is “Europe” Finished?
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Child Abuse
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The Ashcroft confirmation hearings in January reinforced the intuition that virtually all American politics since the Cold War has become abortion politics. The former Missouri senator’s opponents (including such Catholics
Election Numbers Once More
John Green of the University of Akron may know as much about which Americans vote for which candidates and why as anyone in the country. In a recent seminar at
The Clinton Legacy
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As I wrote last week, I have been exceptionally blessed in recent years by the friendship of the faculty and students of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. What
To those about to be ordained (Part 2)
As I wrote last week, I have been exceptionally blessed in recent years by the friendship of the faculty and students of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. What
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