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Abolition and its Cultured Despisers
Posted: Friday, March 30, 2007
The clamoring for apologies and reparations for slavery over recent weeks -- stoked by steady coverage from the BBC -- made Tuesday's Westminster debacle almost inevitable. The greater sadness, though, is that the bitter recriminations deprecate the decency and valor of what Britain accomplished by ending its part in human trafficking.
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Abortion and Precedent
What John Roberts really said.
By M. Edward Whelan III
Posted: Monday, September 19, 2005
Judge Roberts's chief strategic objective in his confirmation hearing was to secure the support of Chairman Specter -- a vocal supporter of Roe v. Wade -- without losing the support of conservative Republicans. It is a testament to Roberts's skills as an advocate that his remarks at his confirmation hearing on abortion and stare decisis have been understood by Specter and many other supporters of Roe as suggesting that he would not vote to overrule Roe. What seems not to have been noticed is that Roberts deftly marked the path for the eventual overruling of Roe.
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About a Boy
By James Bowman
Posted: Thursday, May 16, 2002
About a Boy is a not-altogether successful adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel by Chris and Paul Weitz, the team that brought you American Pie and that, therefore, wouldn’t have been many people’s first choice to be entrusted with such superior material as this.
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About Schmidt
By James Bowman
Posted: Tuesday, December 17, 2002
Just think of Hector or Oedipus or Beowulf or Roland or King Lear. I think Alexander Payne ( Election, Citizen Ruth) understands this in About Schmidt, the movie he directs from a screenplay he developed, along with Jim Taylor, from a novel by Louis Begley, but he does not always succeed in skirting the fatal tendency to portray his Hector as pathetic, rather than heroic, as Willie Loman rather than Marshall Will Kane.
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Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes)
By James Bowman
Posted: Thursday, April 1, 1999
There is an essential bit of information about the plot of Open Your Eyes (in Spanish Abre Los Ojos), directed by Alejandro Amenábar, which is withheld until almost the end of the film and which, because I think it just about worth seeing, I will not reveal here. But it is worth knowing that it is coming, lest you begin to think, as I did, that this was just another weird but boring movie dreamscape, like Matrix, in which nothing is real, or perhaps a bit of Spanish “magic realism, ” like Lovers of the Arctic Circle.
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Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.
 American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.
Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008. How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.
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