
New Oxford Notes: September 2012

Guaranteed Controversy
In advance of her big London Summit on Family Planning, Melinda Gates launched a campaign called "No Controversy." She may soon realize she's already knee-deep in it.
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Man-Child in the Promised Land
Video games, superhero movies, and comic-book conventions are marketed to grown men, who comprise a significant portion of consumers of such products.
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The Development of Social Doctrine
A Christian’s concern for the material well-being of his neighbors springs, properly, not from a flat secularist social-welfare mentality but from an authentic interior spirituality.
Islam’s Engine of Conquest
Two-thirds of Christendom’s original territory — including Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria — were swallowed up by Islam and thoroughly Arabized.
The Waning Legacy of Cardinal Bernardin
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