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"American Spirit or Great Awokening?" by Bruce D. Abramson March 04, 2024
America is suffering from a deep spiritual crisis. The national polarization that so many miscast as political is really a conflict between two spiritual solutions pointing in drastically different directions. One is Wokeism, a new religion that spea...
An Encore for Italian-American Fiction March 04, 2024
A LITTLE OVER A CENTURY AGO, on Good Friday 1923, New York City firemen worked frantically to clear the rubble of a tenement that had collapsed, trapping over a dozen laborers in its basement. Father Patrick O’Connor, the fire department’s chaplain, ...
10 Books to Add to Your Reading List in March March 04, 2024
Whether your March begins with the traditional winds or snow or rain, we’ve got books for you to hunker down with until things take a turn for the milder. Novels include a comedy of retail manners, two titles that continue character studies and an im...
Review of "Daybreak: A Novel" March 04, 2024
At the time of this writing, the war in Ukraine is approaching its second bloody anniversary, with no definitive end in sight. Two years of fighting. Which is to say about one year and 364 days longer than the average American’s attention span. I’d b...
Playing the Victim March 04, 2024
The tidal wave of poststructuralist discourse that crashed onto the American academic scene in the 1970s has left numerous cultural tropes that have trickled their way down into mainstream culture. Is all this talk about social justice and decolonisa...
