Michael Wilson, a graduate of Loyola New Orleans, wrote the New York Times column “Crime Scene” for the past six years.
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Can Obama’s policies survive a Trump regime?
After decades of books that described presidential campaigns as thrill rides, political scientists have begun to push back.
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Can “Planet Earth II” help us love the ugly animals too?
The second installment of the BBC series treats animals like movie stars.
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‘Chaos Monkeys’ peers through the opacity of online advertising
With a sense of itself as the future of humanity, Facebook proves to be no ordinary company. When you’ve got a billion users, Martínez points out, it doesn’t matter if your advertising model is enormously flawed.
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How Alexander Hamilton defended the rights of Catholics in a young America
When many saw Catholics as untrustworthy citizens, Hamilton argued for their full inclusion as American citizens.
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Tracking the theologies coming out of Russian émigrés in mid-century Paris
Bitter, brilliant controversy wracked each stage of the evolution of The Way and its allied academic institutions.
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Gotta Dance!: Exploring the Spiritual Exercises through movement
Exploring the Spiritual Exercises through movement
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Digging Deep: Remembering Seamus Heaney, weaver of words
Remembering Seamus Heaney, weaver of words
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Unlovable Characters: Transition, loss and love in the films of Noah Baumbach
Transition, loss and love in the films of Noah Baumbach
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Reading the Irish
Whatever else they did, the Irish forced “America to be America.”