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Copts Under Seige; Who's Minding the Children? Eyes Wide Shut
Glaring Inequalities
Over the long term, wealth inequality is an imbalance that threatens the common good.
Articles
Preambles for Faith
Except for the severest of unbelievers, it is rare to find a person who does not relish a tale of spiritual transformation, an account of the soul’s progress from
What's Learning For?
When I was a first year student at Georgetown University, a gruff, demanding English professor who would later become a treasured mentor put into my hands a book e
The Missing Link
It is generally agreed that “truth seeking,” or “knowledge for the sake of knowledge,” is at least one of the primary goals of education.
Books and Culture
Books
John Burt analyzes in detail the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.
Books
This new literary biography—”not a formal biography but more than a work of literary criticism,” in the
Books
Blacks and Hispanics make up almost 60 percent of the prison population.
Theater
If an author’s affection for her characters were sufficient to create good drama, Nora Ephron’s Luck
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