Breslin, the legendary New York reporter and columnist, died last week at 88.
Books
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St. Augustine’s love life is fleshed out in “The Confessions of X.”
Kristin Gilger reviews “The Confessions of X” by Suzanne M. Wolfe.
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What Econ 101 gets completely wrong
Charles R. Morris reviews “Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality” by James Kwak.
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A Theology that Weeps
John A. Coleman, S.J., reviews “A Church of the Poor: Pope Francis and the Transformation of Orthodoxy” by Clemens Sedmak.
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A fearless look at the tragedy of abortion
Perhaps the most powerful pro-choice argument rests on the claim that restrictions on abortion do not actually stop abortion from happening—they only make said abortions safer. Biemans devastates the foundations of this argument.
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The ebb and flow of a life with depression
Daphne Merkin presents a realistic but uncomfortable look into her struggle with depression.
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From the academy, books that think (and a few that sell)
Very few professors become best-selling authors, but it happens.
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The dawning of America’s imperial ambitions
Leading those who believed it was America’s destiny to acquire an empire were Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and Theodore Roosevelt, a newly minted war hero.
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Russia needs a truth commission now.
The story of a corrupt president, Boris Yeltsin, and his successor, Putin, trying to reconstruct their country as a world power
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Searching for connections in the Vietnamese diaspora
The challenge of invisibility is paramount in ‘The Refugees.’