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How Ravi Shankar Paved the Way for the Concert for Sandy Relief
Soak the Almost Rich
The Rushdie Affair and the Struggle Against Islamism
Joseph Anton: A Memoir By Salman Rushdie (Random House, 636 pp., $30) I. READ MORE >>
Not Everything Must Go
Hallelujah! The Conservative Catholic Hierarchy Taps an American Anarchist for Sainthood
One week after the presidential election, the Catholic bishops of the United States unanimously endorsed a female anarchist for sainthood. That news is not quite as shocking as it seems. Dorothy Day’s anarchism was of a decidedly pious kind. In 1927, at the age of thirty, she turned away from the secular leftism of her youth and was baptized in the Church, a moment she later confessed she had been waiting for all her life. READ MORE >>
Jay Rockefeller’s in Big Trouble in West Virginia—and So Are the Dems
After a brutal Election Day, Republicans led off the 2014 recruiting cycle with some good news: Popular West Virginia Rep. Shelley Moore Capito announced that she would challenge long-time Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller for his seat. Although Rockefeller has never won reelection by less than 27 percentage points and Democrats continue to dominate at the state-level in West Virginia, Republicans have plenty of cause to be optimistic about their chances in the Mountain State. READ MORE >>
