Editorials
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Free speech for corporations? Yes
Let the corporations speak!
Is free speech for corporations a threat to democracy? Most leading liberal voices presume that it is. As an editor who has spent much of his career fighting for free speech for everyone, I would argue the contrary: Free speech for corporations actually benefits democracy.
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A Supreme Court without Protestants
America's Protestant crisis
When Justice John Paul Stevens retires this summer, he will leave the Supreme Court without any Protestant justice at all for the first time in history. Protestants are being dislodged from other sectors of society as well. Is God trying to tell us something?
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The perils of free association
When Palestinians convert (and other perils of free association)
The Christian Legal Society, an evangelical student group, appears to have run into a problem that neither law nor religion can solve: Non-Christians keep joining it and passing non-Christian resolutions. If faith can't solve this conundrum, surely human ingenuity can.
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Collectors, artists and Albert Barnes
The test that Albert Barnes failed
Set aside the legal issues surrounding the Barnes Foundation's coming move. The more fascinating question isn't legal but philosophical: Ultimately, whose vision should take precedence— the artist's, or the collector's?
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The pointless search for Barnes villains
Who appointed Richard Glanton? (and other questions for Barnes conspiracy buffs)
The Barnes Foundation's move from Merion to the Parkway may be an artistic tragedy, but the relentless search for villains is a misguided distraction. If there's any villain in this saga, it's Albert Barnes himself, who imposed so many restrictions on his Barnes Foundation that no sane philanthropist would help rescue the place until his trust was broken.
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Priestly sex abuse: Why Catholicism?
The Catholic elephant in the room
Given the onerous requirements of the priestly vocation, the remarkable thing about Roman Catholic priests is not that so many of them are sexual abusers, but that so many of them aren't.
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"Annie' without the Depression
Updating Annie: Just one slight problem…
Annie wasn't much of a show to begin with. Now its original target audience is dying out. Does that mean its setting— the Great Depression of the '30s— should be scrapped?
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4 minute read
A Governor's Romance (song)
A Governor's Romance
When a governor is caught with his pants down, who will defend him? Where is the Bellini or Verdi who can do justice to such tragedy? BSR's gonzo lyricist Dan Rottenberg rushes in where others fear to tread.
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J.D. Salinger and the cult of the recluse
For whom J.D. Salinger's bell tolls
Why are we so indulgent toward our society's gifted hermits? If Salinger or Glenn Gould suddenly decides to stop doing what he's doing, why do we let them off the hook? Didn't these allegedly great minds ever read John Donne, or St. Luke?
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China: Threatening, or threatened?
Perpetually threatened China
Americans may hate or fear China's rising economic power. But most of us have bought into the notion that China's leaders really know what they're doing. China's leaders themselves, I suspect, know otherwise.
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