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Elsewhere

Matthew Boudway
April 4, 2013

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The poet Charles Simic on health care, “the new American sadism”

Hendrik Hertzberg on why the Left should avoid calling social-insurance programs “entitlements”

Malcolm Thorndike Nicholson profiles Hilary Putnam, “one of the few living philosophers in the same mold as Russell and James”

Carson Holloway on Theodore Olson’s bad arguments against polygamyCasey Cep on Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Matthew Boudway is senior editor of Commonweal.

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