Chronicles Magazine Letters

Nobody but the People

Samuel Francis - SEPTEMBER 01, 2001

In the "Prologue" to his massive biography of Sen. Joe McCarthy, historian Thomas Reeves describes a scene that took place in Milwaukee, in the senator's home state, in November, 1954, only a month before his colleagues voted to condemn him and...

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The Tower of Babble
Scott P. Richert - SEPTEMBER 01, 2001
The first call comes late on a Friday night. "Welcome back," says Mark Dahlgren, the organist at St. Mary's Shrine, who is nine months through the one year of probation he received for hugging a tree at Tom and Jan Ditzler's farm.
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Correspondence

American Handgunners Seek Vatican Recognition
Alberto Carosa - SEPTEMBER 01, 2001
From time to time, the Catholic Church has to address the thorny problems caused by those liberal faithful who challenge her principles and tenets.
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Correspondence

Harvest Moon
Sean Scallon - SEPTEMBER 01, 2001
I first noticed it as I drove past, heading for one of those small-town Wisconsin festivals, this one celebrating the largest earthen dam in the Midwest (by their claim, of course) nestled in the stanitsa of Spring Valley.
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Correspondence

Ethnicity as a Way of Life
Curtis Cate - SEPTEMBER 01, 2001
Years ago, an Hungarian friend of mine, eager to finish a novel, decided to go to Corsica to find the peace and quiet he craved. Some six months later, after he returned to Paris, I asked him if, during his stay, he had picked up any Corsican.
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Correspondence

Public Relations
Andrei Navrozov - SEPTEMBER 01, 2001
"All the cars you see around here," yet another taxi driver bringing me from the Grand Hotel Villa Igiea to the congested center of town began in a confidential undertone, "it wasn't always like that, you know.
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Correspondence

New Politics in Old Virginia
Marshall Fishwick - SEPTEMBER 01, 2001
It took 114 years, but by 2000, Virginia had become a Republican state. What brought about such a great change in the Old Dominion? Let's take a look back.
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Chronicles Magazine Letters

Nobody but the People

The Tower of Babble

American Handgunners Seek Vatican Recognition

Harvest Moon

Ethnicity as a Way of Life

Public Relations

New Politics in Old Virginia

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