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Is affordable health care possible?
Health care is market-driven, yet the health care market is unlike other markets.
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A writer who helps us understand the lives of others
Paley knew by instinct what science now confirms: the role reading plays in developing empathy for the other.
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Winston and George, writers and truth tellers at heart
As social observers, generally from opposite ends of the political spectrum, both men were keenly aware of England’s long-held class divisions.
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The long, ugly history of segregated housing
Government action at every level has caused segregated housing and its ugly effects in the United States.
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How Catholic business schools can do better than Harvard
Where elite secular schools fall short of setting the tone needed to humanize the world of business, Catholic schools can deliver.
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Is war a necessary evil?
Paul Lauritzen reviews “War: An Enquiry” by A. C. Grayling
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Harvard Business School and the American pursuit of profit
H.B.S. can provide students with a “golden passport” to a wealthy lifestyle, but do ethical business practices get lost along the way?
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The facts on the ground in the West Bank
Elizabeth Webb reviews “A Land Without Borders” by Nir Baram.
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Intellectual history that reads like an adventure story
Drew Christiansen, S.J., reviews “Catholicism and Citizenship” by Massimo Faggioli