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Diet for a Large Planet

… had the finest system of grain inspection in the world, meaning it was trustworthy. They also had telegraphs …

The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now

… solicitation as an “impious and heinous crime” and a “plague” infecting those whose job it was to heal others. … direction of women in the traditional confessional—meaning separated physically from them.” It was an old …
Under Attlee's direction, the Labour Party's position on foreign affairs in the 1930s was somewhat inconsistent. A believer in the "collective security" represented by the League of Nations, Attlee opposed rearmament even as he pushed for firmer measures against Nazi aggression.

A Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing

Review of Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain, by John Bew (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017).