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Is Any War Just, Dr. Keown?
IRD President Mark Tooley continues his exchange with Georgetown University ethicist John Keown on the American Revolution. |
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Bearing False Witness
Is American unease with building the Ground Zero mosque the moral equivalent of anti-Semitism in France’s notorious Dreyfuss Affair over a century ago? |
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Daisy Khan and the Beautiful City
Khan and Rauf intend for the Ground Zero Mosque to help shape a Muslim identity in America. And for the Religious Left, this is how to build a beautiful city in New York, a city such as New York has never seen before.
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