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Andrei Codrescu

  • Is There Any Meaning In Poet Seamus Heaney's Last Text?
    Andrei Codrescu
    Commentator Andrei Codrescu reflects on the text message written by poet Seamus Heaney just before he died. In Latin he wrote to his wife "do not be afraid." The 74-year-old Heaney died in a Dublin hospital last week. Codrescu says no great meaning should be implied — it was just a personal message to his wife.
  • What's Behind Romania's Church Building Spree?
    Andrei Codrescu
    Commentator Andrei Codrescu notes the complicity of the Romanian Orthodox Church in both World War II and Communist-era wrongs. Now the church is giving big new construction projects to politically connected contractors.