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1. The allure of J. D. Salinger and Shane Warne 
   

   Just as Brits were more absorbed by Byron's life than his work, and Australians were absorbed by Shane Warne's antics more than his artistry, J. D. Salinger grew more famous for retreating from public life, than for his masterpieces.

   
   Issue 2 : Published 03-Feb-2010
2. Legacy of a Catholic social thinker 
   

   Jesuit Fr Jean-Yves Calvez's 1957 work La pensée de Karl Marx was as much studied in Communist cells as in Catholic circles. Fr Calvez systematically studied Catholic Social Teaching, and his impact on Catholic attitudes was enormous but diffuse.

   
   Issue 1 : Published 21-Jan-2010
3. Best of 2009: Michael Jackson's tragic gift 
   When celebrities die, public grief is disproportionate, because death reasserts the humanity of one who has seemed beyond it. Jackson had become so far removed from his humanity that the shock of his mortality is even more profound. June 2009
   Issue 25 : Published 14-Jan-2010
4. How Ted Kennedy changed the world 
   The final gift of Ted Kennedy to the nation was to pass the torch of liberalism to Barack Obama. It was breathtaking to see this Irish Catholic embrace a black man as his political heir.
   Issue 0 : Published 28-Aug-2009
5. Forgiving Frank McCourt 
   

   For a while there, McCourt was 'mick of the moment', except in his native Limerick where they wanted to strangle him. Teacher Man, his best book, captures what it is to be the lonely figure with only cunning and a stick of chalk to protect you.

   
   Issue 14 : Published 22-Jul-2009
6. Michael Jackson's tragic gift 
   When celebrities die, public grief is disproportionate, because death reasserts the humanity of one who has seemed beyond it. Jackson had become so far removed from his humanity that the shock of his mortality is even more profound.
   Issue 12 : Published 29-Jun-2009
7. Life of a 'geologian' 
   

   Thomas Berry (1914-2009), Catholicism's most significant thinker in ecological theology, argued that religion had failed to provide a way of making sense of the cosmos. Christians oppose homicide, but have no morality to deal with the killing of the planet.

   
   Issue 11 : Published 11-Jun-2009
8. The Rushdie of the West: Remembering Jean Baudrillard  
   Scott Stephens on the passing of Jean Baudrillard.
   Issue : Published 04-Apr-2007
9. Master mixer of politics and religion 
   One of Jesuit congressman Robert Drinan's political claims to fame was that he had moved the first motion of impeachment against Richard Nixon. He showed that the mix of politics and religion on Capitol Hill was difficult, especially concerning abortion.
   Issue 3 : Published 27-Feb-2007
10. The ‘conscious pariah’ 
    Anthony Ham examines the life and legacy of Edward Said.
    Issue 9 : Published 15-Jun-2006

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