In his great column today, Peter Steinfels asks an important question about NRLC's decision to feature Karl Rove as a keynote speaker at its annual convention:

Is it politically nave to be surprised that the nations leading anti-abortion organization, which describes itself as nonpartisan, would make the star of its election-year convention the embodiment of the Bush administrations politics at their most calculating and hard-hitting? Or that his presentation, on the Fourth of July, no less, is titled Renewing Life in America An Old-Fashioned Political Rally?

I don't think so. Read the whole thing right here.

Grant Gallicho joined Commonweal as an intern and was an associate editor for the magazine until 2015. 

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