John Matteson reviews two books about World War I: “The World Remade: America in World War I” and “The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End.”
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Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Examining the American peace movement prior to World War I
Mark J. Davis reviews “War Against War: The American Fight for Peace” by Michael Kazin.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
Trump’s cuts to the arts are threatening this Jesuit priest’s documentary on Flannery O’Connor
How unfortunate that the arts are caught in the cross-hairs of a ruptured and increasingly misguided political system.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Chasing the story was Jimmy Breslin’s reason for being
Breslin, the legendary New York reporter and columnist, died last week at 88.
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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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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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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.