Catholic Responses to Poverty

Posted on November 13, 2014
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Shuttling between economics and political philosophy, public policy and theology, literature and ethics—the conference paraded the unique strength of the intellectual Catholicism today—no discipline out of bounds, no perspective non grata.
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Honoring a Vet

Posted on November 11, 2014
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Returning to base, Davis and the other pilots heard their orders for the next day: Attack Kiska Harbor with everything they had regardless of the weather.

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Ecce Homo

Posted on November 6, 2014
Image: Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche (detail), c. 1906, by Edvard Munch (1863–1944); Munch-museet, Oslo, Norway; De Agostini Picture Library/Bridgeman Images.

That Edvard Munch never met Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the great missed encounters of the modern age.

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Prejudice and Place

Posted on November 5, 2014
If by “prejudice” Sandel means “subjective understanding,” then I’m not entirely sure it needs defending.
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