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  Love and the Pope

  In a world where religion and progressive thinking seem too often to be hopelessly at odds, there was a fresh breeze this week out of that most forbidding of citadels, the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI, greeted at his coronation eight months ago as an archconservative, issued his first encyclical on Wednesday, and it contained more…

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• Opinion

  The Skewering Of Jack Abramoff

  From George Clooney to Orthodox rabbis, the list of those who have scathingly denounced Jack Abramoff seems endless. Given the admission of guilt by this Orthodox Jew and former super-lobbyist for Indian gambling tribes, is it possible to discover any grounds for sympathy with him? Actually, yes. But first a disclaimer. As I wrote in…

  By David Klinghoffer Jan 27, 2006 | 4 min read
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  The Purse and the Sword

  Iraq is beginning to sound like a rerun of the Vietnam War, and not just because presidential critics again are crying out that the United States has fallen into a quagmire. Opponents of the American presence in Iraq are arguing that a wartime president has overstepped the Constitution and that, if Congress’s constitutional role in…

  By John Yoo Jan 27, 2006 | 6 min read

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  The Passion of the Texans

  As the law moves in on a pair of Texans — ex-Enron boss Ken Lay and ex-House majority leader Tom DeLay — now would be a good time for anybody who has anxiety over negative stories about Jews to start squirming. Lay, who is set to go on trial January 30 in Houston, faces seven…

  Jan 20, 2006 | 4 min read
• Letters

  January 20, 2006

  Group Opposes Alito Readers of a January 13 article about the Senate Judicial Committee hearings on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court might be left with the impression that The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring is not “mobilizing their membership” even though we do oppose Alito’s nomination (“Florida Democrat Chosen To Testify at Alito…

  Jan 20, 2006 | 3 min read
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  Out of Many, Less Than One

  The polite way to put it is that we are a “voluntary community,” and that is surely the truth. But it is quite far from the whole truth, which is that we are an anarchic community. For better and now and then for worse, we have neither pope nor president, no hierarchical structure that speaks…

  By Leonard Fein Jan 20, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Passion of the Texans

  As the law moves in on a pair of Texans — ex-Enron boss Ken Lay and ex-House majority leader Tom DeLay — now would be a good time for anybody who has anxiety over negative stories about Jews to start squirming. Lay, who is set to go on trial January 30 in Houston, faces seven…

  Jan 20, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Chile Future

  Elections in foreign countries have a way of capturing our imagination for a few days, reminding us briefly that there’s a big world out there, prompting some high-minded editorials and perhaps a dinner conversation or two, then fading from view. This week’s presidential run-off in Chile promises to be one of those events. The vote…

  Jan 20, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Out of Many, Less Than One

  The polite way to put it is that we are a “voluntary community,” and that is surely the truth. But it is quite far from the whole truth, which is that we are an anarchic community. For better and now and then for worse, we have neither pope nor president, no hierarchical structure that speaks…

  By Leonard Fein Jan 20, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Chile Future

  Elections in foreign countries have a way of capturing our imagination for a few days, reminding us briefly that there’s a big world out there, prompting some high-minded editorials and perhaps a dinner conversation or two, then fading from view. This week’s presidential run-off in Chile promises to be one of those events. The vote…

  Jan 20, 2006 | 4 min read
• Letters

  Letter January 20, 2006

  Group Opposes Alito Readers of a January 13 article about the Senate Judicial Committee hearings on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court might be left with the impression that The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring is not “mobilizing their membership” even though we do oppose Alito’s nomination (“Florida Democrat Chosen To Testify at Alito…

  Jan 20, 2006 | 3 min read