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Editorials
The EditorsJuly 02, 2007

July 4, 2007 should be an occasion for citizens to reclaim government from the forces that threaten to capture and corrupt it.

Columns
John F. KavanaughJuly 02, 2007

No one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods. Rich people and holders of powerful positions seem to need friends…. In poverty also, and in other misfortunes, people think friends are the only refuge. —Aristotle, NicomacheanEthics, Book VII Having heard so m

William BoleJuly 02, 2007

A few clicks into a Google search of “Professor David J. O’Brien,” someone not entirely in the know could wonder just how many contemporary American intellectuals there are by that name, surfacing in venues within and beyond the academic world. There is David J. O’Brien the C

In wrestling with the moral challenge presented by the conflict in Iraq, those who invoke the principles of just-war theory should also consider the landmark encyclical of John XXIII, Pacem in Terris, with its recognition of international moral responsibility. Judging the Occupation: Before, During,

Faith in Focus
Maria LeonardJuly 02, 2007

Witnessing the slow death of a people

Faith in Focus
Robert HirschfieldJuly 02, 2007

When he resorts to civil disobedience, his long body hugging the earth of a Palestinian olive orchard or a home slated for demolition, Rabbi Arik Ascherman sets loose upon the Holy Land the ghost of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Like King, Ascherman lets the prophets’ hard-bitten calls f

Poetry
Paul MartinJuly 02, 2007

The first time I entered his empty room