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	<title>FIRST THINGS: On the Square</title>
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	<description>FIRST THINGS, the Journal of Religion, Culture and Public Life</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Deadly Convenience of Christianity Without Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1227</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard John Neuhaus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“Gnosticism” may not be the right word for it, but it is what Harold Bloom in The American Religion calls a religion of the self. It is a seductive way of accommodating differences by declaring a truce in contentions over truth. The “Christ without culture” model—meaning Christianity indifferent to culture—would seem to produce a circumstance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reel Aliens</title>
		<link>http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1226</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell E. Saltzman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Day the Earth Stood Still, a remake of the 1951 black and white movie classic of the same title, will be released December 12. I can’t wait to see it.
A emissary from the galactic federation is coming to warn Earth about its bad environmental habits. We’re trashing up the neighborhood and our alien neighbors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Realism of the Supernatural</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sally Thomas</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ronald was staring with wild incomprehension at the toaster, which was stubbornly refusing to relinquish the toast. This sentence, from British writer Alice Thomas Ellis’ 1990 novel, The Inn at the Edge of the World, may well win my personal award for Best-Ever Pithy Character Sketch. In this one sentence, everything a reader needs to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare with a Conscience</title>
		<link>http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1223</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James C. Capretta</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare institutions owned and operated by the Catholic Church are, and always have been, an important component of the nation’s healthcare infrastructure. By 1872, there were seventy-five Catholic hospitals in operation around the United States, founded and staffed mainly by women’s religious congregations—the Sisters of Charity, the Benedictine Sisters, the Daughters of Charity, the Sisters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soulful Unbelief</title>
		<link>http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1222</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R.R. Reno</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ages ago, Lionel Trilling wrote in favor of the “little magazines.” The Partisan Review had put out an anthology after the Second World War, and Trilling’s introduction drew attention to a simple fact: There is not a large market for sophisticated literary and intellectual voices. Thank goodness, therefore, for the niche players, the small operations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming Kulturkampf</title>
		<link>http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1221</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard John Neuhaus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many who do not embrace the Christian faith nonetheless have a high appreciation of the importance of Christianity to the cultural and social order. Theirs is an instrumental view of religion. Edward Gibbon caught the idea nicely, and in his usual caustic manner, when describing the religious cults of the Roman Empire. He says the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The December Issue Is Here!</title>
		<link>http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1220</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Bottum</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Joseph Bottum</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas time is almost here—aarrgghh, how I hate that sentiment when Halloween is not long past, election day barely over, and Thanksgiving not yet come.
Still, in the world of magazine publishing, you have to think ahead, and that joyful season of the year is at our throats again. The December issue has just arrived from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture Wars, R.I.P.?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1219</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Leithart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Only four years ago, the media were abuzz with the revelation that a fissure ran through America, dividing us into Republican red states and Democratic blue states, polarity as much cultural as political. Red states are NASCAR and barbecue, while blue states are NPR and brie. Red states are overweight and vulgar and gas-guzzling, while [...]]]></description>
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