September 2008
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Liberalism, Socialism and Utopianism
By Yascha Mounk.
An Interview with Giuliano Amato, Italy’s two-time Prime Minister.
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Do you consider yourself a liberal? What does liberalism mean to you?
Liberalism for me is a philosophy for our time, a philosophy which aims at a world in which every human being can freely decide about his or her life. Of course, being...
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Persecution and the Art of Writing
By Sam Munson.
“They’re the kind of people, they make me embarrassed to be a Jew.”
A Short Story.
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Persecution and the Art of Writing I found out, days afterward, that the man who broke my nose was named Marvin Havlicek. My nose had no impressive structure to begin with. Breakage endowed it with lopsided,...
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Praying for Victory: God, Barack Obama and the...
By Timothy Stanley.
Obama has tried to frame a pro-Christian message that talks in broad terms about shared values while avoiding specifics that might alienate secularists and atheists.
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Let us imagine for a moment that Barack Obama is elected president in November 2008. Whether it fills you with joy to know that a bright, ...
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Elemental Children - The Photography of Bernard...
By Paul Sutton.
Provocative portraits of innocents: Paul Sutton examines Bernard Faucon’s dreams of fantastical youth.
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Bernard Faucon stopped taking photographs in 1995 because his work of more than twenty years came to a preternatural end. He could take it no further. His motivational theme was childhood and...