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    Saturday, May 20, 2006    
         
      "Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis"
(05/20/06 08:19:01 AM; 1033 words)
A discussion with Bernard Lewis at The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: .... You spoke before of the conflict of civilizations, a term that has been much used....
   
      SC&A Vents
(05/20/06 08:05:30 AM; 6 words)
SC&A Vent SC&A Vents, Part Two
   
      "Why Isn't Socialism Dead?"
(05/20/06 07:51:10 AM; 601 words)
By Lee Harris at TCS Daily: .... In light of the horrors brought about in the twentieth century by the revolutionary myth of socialism, it is easy to sympathize with....
   
    Thursday, May 18, 2006    
         
      The Fair And Balanced By Definition Mentality
(05/18/06 05:33:25 PM; 304 words)
I was inspired by an entry at GetReligion to post the following comment there: This is a rare window into mainstream media’s point of view. I think their intellectual arrogance....
   
    Tuesday, May 16, 2006    
         
      The Next Archbishop of Washington, DC
(05/16/06 05:26:45 PM; 88 words)
Most Rev. Donald William Wuerl, eleventh bishop of Pittsburgh. Here he is, the last time he was in my neighborhood, May 1, 2004. Most Rev. Donald William Wuerl, Bishop of....
   
    Monday, May 15, 2006    
         
      "Europe's Two Culture Wars"
(05/15/06 09:08:25 PM; 529 words)
By George Weigel at Commentary: Earlier this year, five days short of the second anniversary of the Madrid bombings, the Zapatero government, which had already legalized marriage between and adoption....
   
      Rosenthal Calls Mainstream Media a Pack of Liars
(05/15/06 08:43:04 PM; 419 words)
Well, not exactly. A. M. Rosenthal, sometime reporter and editor for the New York Times, died May 10. Terry Mattingly, over at GetReligion, directs us to an NYT editorial, May....
   
    Sunday, May 14, 2006    
         
      "A Mass of Outworn Conventions"
(05/14/06 12:32:56 PM; 94 words)
Three by Chesterton III + + + + + When we really wish to know how the world is going, it is no bad test to take some tag or....
   
      "A Fog of Journalism"
(05/14/06 12:18:59 PM; 480 words)
Three by Chesterton II + + + + + Londoners live in a fog of journalism, out of which there looms from time to time a figure, who strikes certain....
   
      "The Practical Theory Fails at the Most Practical Moment"
(05/14/06 12:10:35 PM; 432 words)
Three by Chesterton I + + + + + Authority ruling men must be respected; it must even be loved. Men must in the last resort love it; for the....
   

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