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“An Act of Prayer”: Dorothy Day’s Influence on Daniel Berrigan (and Even Vice Versa)

By Bill Wylie-Kellermann

Daniel Berrigan first met Dorothy Day during his Jesuit formation in the early ’50s, bringing his Brooklyn Prep students to her place near the Bowery. “It was life-changing for all of us,” he remembered. In 1961 Day attended a talk of Berrigan’s on Catholic social teaching and the influence of John XXIII. “Just like a priest!” she snapped afterward, leaving no time for others to discuss, but the next day she requested a copy of his talk for possible publication.

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00 I Told You So

By John Griswold

Screenshot from the trailer for ‘No Time to Die,’ from MGM and Eon Productions     What do I get for predicting that James Bond would still be looking over his shoulder in retirement, and despite his heroic adventures would feel only fatigue and purposelessness? None of that was…

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Temple Grandin: Screens Do Not Solve Autism

By Jeannette Cooperman

A review of multiple scientific studies showed that individuals with ASD consistently struggled harder with problematic internet use and showed more symptoms of internet addiction—depression, inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, opposition, and escapism. Another review found children and adults with ASD to be more vulnerable to the problematic use of video games.

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The Day Ronald Reagan Transformed Himself and American Politics

By Gerald Early

Reagan’s speech on behalf of Goldwater in 1964 was an 11th-hour attempt to breathe life into the campaign, which, in fact, it briefly did. Reagan was taking a risk coming out for Goldwater, who was considered outside the political mainstream, for some, an extremist. But Reagan, knowing, as everyone did, that Goldwater was going to lose, stood to inherit a political constituency.

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