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Truth, Beauty & the American Way

Alicia Mosier

Ever since the World Trade Center was destroyed, the question of what to do with the site has been at the forefront of New Yorkers’ minds. The Twin Towers...

Standing at Attention

Alicia Mosier

It seems we haven’t heard the voices of soldiers for a very long time. Not these voices, anyway: matter-of-fact, a little reserved, sometimes quiet, sometimes triumphant, from a twenty-year-old...

The Body’s Possibilities

Alicia Mosier

One week after the terrorist attacks of September 11, I went to the ballet. I wasn’t looking forward to it. In the days since the attacks, friends and colleagues...

Millennials Floating

Alicia Mosier

This time last year, a book called Millennials Rising began to make headlines. The authors, Neil Howe and William Strauss, have of late astounded armchair sociologists with their predictions...

The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century

Alicia Mosier

In the best that has been thought and said about the twentieth century, its Christian martyrs have hardly been mentioned. This should come as no surprise. From our vantage...

Letter from Poland

Alicia Mosier

If you looked closely during one of the full-to-bursting Sunday evening student Masses last summer at the Dominican church in Krakow, Poland, you would have seen four nicely dressed...