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	<title>FIRST THINGS: On the Square</title>
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		<title>The &#8220;Soul&#8221; of a Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard John Neuhaus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile. I really like the title of the book I’m writing, in the hope of having it ready for publication in the first part of 2009. That can be a problem in writing books. You fall in love with a title and then labor to build a book around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grotesquerie and Grief: Abortion in Horror Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eve Tushnet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortion was made for horror. In abortion, a mother is pitted against her child, the Madonna becomes Medea; and the child, usually a symbol of innocence, is experienced as an invading enemy. The distortions of the pregnant woman’s body are mirrored in the dismemberment of the fetus, and the helplessness and terror felt by many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Vote for Sarah Palin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suann Therese Maier</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Three memories have shaped my approach to this year’s general election.
Here’s the first. In the late 1970s, during a two-year break from teaching to raise our second son, an adopted child, I found myself at a Los Angeles dinner party filled with DINKs, the “double income, no kids” crowd who were just emerging as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death and the Postmodern Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R.R. Reno</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while I come across a perfect book—not perfect in the sense of flawless or deep or indispensable, but perfect in the sense of being richly representative of an era or ethos or sensibility. Erich Fromm’s Escape from Freedom is perfect in this way. Uncomplicated, accessible, and radiant with confidence in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lesson in Deep Ecology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Barbeau Gardiner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep ecology, a movement launched by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in 1972, may be contrasted to an environmentalism concerned with the depletion of resources and pollution. For one thing, deep ecology aims at nothing less than a fundamental change in religion, morality, and social institutions. The eight-point platform devised by Naess and his chief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Public Square Became Naked</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard John Neuhaus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reflecting here on the ways in which, also for Christians, and maybe especially for Christians, being American is part of our inescapable identity. These reflections will, God willing, be part of a forthcoming book, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile. 
Thought that is real and not merely, as John Henry Cardinal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tattoo Fashion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R.R. Reno</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As the hot days of summer draw to a close, I find myself possessed of a full inventory of images. I certainly knew about the recent fashion of tattooing. But in the summer season of exposed skin, I found myself surprised by how widespread it has become. 
A morning under an umbrella on the patio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Completing Adam&#8217;s Task</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen H. Webb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Collecting, naming, and organizing things—anything, from banana labels to dachshund paperweights—seems to be built into human nature. At least, that’s what the Bible tells us. The first task God gave Adam was the naming of the animals. God “brought them to Adam to see what he would call them” and “the man gave names to [...]]]></description>
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