Tom Mueller talks to charismatic comedian Beppe Grillo about his serious goals for Italy: http://nyr.kr/XSBWOa

Photograph by Stefano De Luigi.

Virginia Cannon on Dorothy Day:

Dorothy Day, a heroine of the American left and perhaps the most famous radical in the history of the American Catholic Church, led one of those remarkable lives that encompassed all the major upheavals of the twentieth century. The twenty-first century, remarkably, finds her being touted for canonization, with a big push this week from Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York. It’s a terrific idea: a home-town saint for the Occupy Wall Street era….

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(Source: newyorker.com)

A selection of photos from “Occupied Spaces,” Ben Roberts’s book of photos from inside Occupy Wall Street camps. Click here for the full slideshow.