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	<title>FIRST THINGS: On the Square</title>
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		<title>The Pregnancy Pact</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R.R. Reno</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month saw a flurry of interest in the reproductive goings-on in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Time magazine reported a spike in teen pregnancies at Gloucester High School—from 3 or 4 last year to 17 this year (see June 18, 2008, “Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High”). That’s what social scientists call a statistically significant variation. But the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Shaw</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“If he wakes me up today, God has something he wants me to do.” “I’m your sister, you’re my brother.” “We are all the same—that’s why we need to love everybody.” 
Truisms get their name because they are, well, true. But not the sort of truth that is going to change the world. They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scalia and the Lure of the Natural Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hadley Arkes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Scenes from a dinner in Washington ten years ago: 
	Irving Kristol: “What was in the Second Amendment, again?”
	Paul Cantor: “Irving, you don’t remember? You wrote it.”
	There has often been a faint recollection of the Second Amendment, because it had rarely been before the courts. The rights in that Amendment were enforced politically: Voters punished politicians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pilgim&#8217;s Progress: Corpus Christi 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel Peters</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An excited group of girls behind me—ages five to eight, I think, walking with their mothers: some of them dribbling, others flinging, handfuls of rose petals drawn from their little white baskets. Next the censers, wafting smoke, and then the Sacrament itself, in its monstrance:  a great golden sun on a pedestal. And then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the Third Reich and Other Great Evils</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard John Neuhaus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Of the writing of books about the Holocaust it seems there is no end. And it is, all in all, a good thing that that is the case. There are other candidates for the dreadful distinction, but it happens that the Holocaust is the only universally agreed upon icon of absolute evil in the modern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of the &#8220;Evangelical Crackup&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Daryl Charles</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In this hour of “new day” presidential politicking, it is difficult to distinguish prophecy from wishful thinking, especially among those in the electronic and print media. Take, for example, the purported radical shift in alignment among religious conservatives that was reported as a cover story in the New York Times Magazine in October 2007. Under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Complete&#8211;and Surprising&#8211;Flann O&#8217;Brien</title>
		<link>http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1099</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franklin Freeman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, and a very long time ago it was, Flann O’Brien (aka Myles na Gopaleen, aka Brian O’Nolan, his real name, sometimes gaelicized to Brian Ó Nualláin) saw a woman hopping along the road in the Irish countryside. What was interesting about this woman was that she had only one leg.
	As Anthony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yellow Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Kerian</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the late nineteenth century, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer developed what would come to be known as yellow journalism. By disregarding what had been standard journalistic methods, particularly in regards to the verifying of sources, these two publishers were able both to push their country toward war with Spain and dramatically increase the [...]]]></description>
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