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Truth, Beauty & the American Way
Ever since the World Trade Center was destroyed, the question of what to do with the site has been at the forefront of New Yorkers’ minds. The Twin Towers...
Standing at Attention
It seems we haven’t heard the voices of soldiers for a very long time. Not these voices, anyway: matter-of-fact, a little reserved, sometimes quiet, sometimes triumphant, from a twenty-year-old...
The Body’s Possibilities
One week after the terrorist attacks of September 11, I went to the ballet. I wasn’t looking forward to it. In the days since the attacks, friends and colleagues...
Millennials Floating
This time last year, a book called Millennials Rising began to make headlines. The authors, Neil Howe and William Strauss, have of late astounded armchair sociologists with their predictions...
The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century
The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive World History by robert royal crossroad, 448 pages, $23.20 In the best that has been thought and said about the...
Letter from Poland
If you looked closely during one of the full-to-bursting Sunday evening student Masses last summer at the Dominican church in Krakow, Poland, you would have seen four nicely dressed...
