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The disconnect today

Ivan E. Bodensteiner (Valparaiso): Are Catholic Bishops Seeking a Religious Preference or Religious Freedom? From American Diplomacy, John H. Brown reviews Modernist America: Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture by Richard Pells. Aotearoa/New Zealand: Grant Brookes on Mana, a movement of the people. Programmed for primetime: Bhaskar Sunkara how for policy wonks, politics no longer computes. The happiness machine: Farhad Manjoo on how Google became such a great place to work. The disconnect today between vaunted American ideals of multiculturalism and the reality of Anglophone dominance in the presidency can in large part be traced to the American electoral system. Turkmenistan’s latest great work of fiction: A new media law in one of the world’s most repressive states promises all sorts of freedom.