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Stumbling blocks
The Much Too Promised Land America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace Aaron David Miller Bantam, $16, 416 pp. Innocent Abroad An...
Commonweal, 04/24/09 by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels · More from publication -
Sex, religion & prop 8
The vote on California's Proposition 8 in the November election shocked and dismayed the gay community--and surprised others who thought it was a...
Commonweal, 02/27/09 by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels · More from publication -
Mis-governance: cleaning up after the bush administration
Has George W. Bush been the worst president ever? Or, as New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has suggested (November 2), was that James...
Commonweal, 12/01/08 by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels · More from publication -
Someone else's pain: The Forever War
The Forever War The Forever War Dexter Filkins Alfred A. Knopf, $25, 384 pp. Dozens of books have appeared about the U.S. invasion,...
Commonweal, 10/24/08 by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels · More from publication -
Bad orchard: Errol Morris's 'standard operating procedure'
In April 2004, photographs from Abu Ghraib showing U.S. Army MPs humiliating and abusing Iraqi prisoners sent shockwaves around the world. One...
Commonweal, 05/23/08 by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels · More from publication -
Askance but not down
In my review of Patricia Hampl's The Florist's Daughter ("Tale of Two Mothers," February 29), I wrote: "As her mother looked down on the Czech...
Commonweal, 04/11/08 by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels · More from publication -
A tale of two mothers
The Florist's Daughter The Florist's Daughter Patricia Hampl Harcourt, $24, 240 pp. Swimming in a Sea of Death A Son's Memoir David...
Commonweal, 02/29/08 by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels · More from publication -
Anatomy of a failure
The Occupation of Iraq The Occupation of Iraq Winning the War, Losing the Peace Ali A. Allawi Yale University Press, $28, 544 pp. Who...
Commonweal, 09/28/07 by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels · More from publication -
The Royal road to defeat: gender in the French election
Compared to the interminable process that is the 2008 U.S. elections, France's presidential election was on fast-forward. The twelve party...
Commonweal, 06/01/07 by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels · More from publication -
Dissident president
To the Castle and Back To the Castle and Back Vaclav Havel Translated by Paul Wilson Alfred A. Knopf, $27.95, 400 pp. It is always a...
Commonweal, 05/04/07 by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels · More from publication
