Peter Quinn is a novelist and frequent contributor to Commonweal. His memoir, Cross Bronx, A Writing Life (Fordham University Press), is currently in print. Also by this author Politics Is Personal Get Commonweal’s latest, delivered twice weekly. Email address Published in the 2005-06-17 issue: View Contents Most Recent Worse than Chamberlain By John Connelly March 13, 2025 Three Progressive Prejudices By Anthony T. Kronman March 13, 2025 Catholic Universities in the Crosshairs? By Massimo Faggioli March 11, 2025