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Decentralization, Absolutism, and the Papal States
by David Kertzer
Historian David Kertzer made a name for himself with his 1997 book
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. The book covers the until then rarely mentioned case of an Italian Jewish boy who was illicitly baptized by the housekeeper, and then kidnapped in 1858 by Papal State authorities on the grounds that Jews in the Papal States could not be permitted to raise a Christian child.
Because so few books or in-depth articles have been written on the topic in English, Kertzer now enjoys a position as perhaps the preeminent expert on the case. This is no small thing since a number of filmmakers including Steven Spielberg have expressed interest in dramatizing the Mortara case on film. The film project explicitly based on Kertzer’s book was still moving forward as of February of this year.1
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Biden Will Give Everyone More Money
Commentary
President Joe Biden must have been reading W.W. Jacobs, an English author of charming short stories who wrote around the turn of the 20th century.
Jacobs’s stories are often related through the mouth of a night-watchman at a wharf in London’s docks. “An Odd Freak” begins: “‘Speaking o’ money,’ said the night-watchman, thoughtfully, as he selected an empty soap-box on the wharf for a seat, ‘the whole world would be different if we all ’ad more of it. It would be a brighter and a ’appier place for everybody.’”
The president has taken this message, so obviously true, to heart. The night-watchman has become his economic guru. Thanks to the president, then, everyone will soon have much more money than before, although (as is always the way) some will get more of it into their hands than others, depending on whether or not they are government contractors, members of favored groups, and so on.
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