Monthly Archives: January 2010

Author Response: “Why the Debate on Immigration is All Wrong”

Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a  Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother (Random House 2007). A few years ago, in a conversation with my husband’s oldest brother, I said that I thought the only … Continue reading

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Tracy Kidder on Haiti

Tracy Kidder, author of such bestselling books as the college common reading classic Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World  and the new, critically-lauded Strength in What Remains, has penned an interesting … Continue reading

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Why You’re Wrong About the Crusades

by Lars Brownworth, author of  Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Crown, 2009). There are few words as controversial—or as misunderstood—as ‘crusade’.  Those who doubt that need only remember nine years ago when President George … Continue reading

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