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How to Be Critical

Ulrich L. Lehner

Do you remember when you toured college campuses and heard admission counselors and deans praise their school for fostering “critical thinking”? Did you ever ask yourself if there was...

Young Pius

Ulrich L. Lehner

The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europeby david i. kertzer random house, 512 pages, $20 Books like this are rare. The...

Prurient History

Ulrich L. Lehner

The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogioby hubert wolf vintage, 496 pages, $17 Sex sells, all the more if one throws in Vatican secrets and conspiracy. Long before ­Frédéric Martel’s In the...