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Articles

Editorial: Post-Cold War Newspeak


by The Editors

Black Dignity and the Common Good


by Glenn C. Loury

Ecumenism Without Illusions: A Catholic Perspective


by Avery Cardinal Dulles

Law, Laws, and Human Community


by Mary Ann Glendon

The Crisis of the West: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Imperative of Salvation


by William E. Johnston Jr.

The Psychology of Altruism


by James W. Fowler

East Germany: Luther vs. Lenin


by Uzve Siemon-Netto

Opinion

Sakharov’s Legacy


by Holt Ruffin

Ecotastrophe Again


by Herbert London

Schools on Purpose


by Charles L. Glenn

The Public Square

The Perfectly Raised Consciousness


by Richard John Neuhaus

Reviews

Michael Harrington’s Socialism


by Max L. Stackhouse

Never the Twain


by Thomas Berger

Feminist Theodicy


by Maria McFadden Maffucci

The Fate of Republicanism


by Mark A. Noll

The Transcendent in the Mundane


by Jill P. Baumgaertner

Briefly Noted


by Various

Poetry

Leaf with Berry


by Josephine Jacobsen

The Shadows


by Josephine Jacobsen

Spider


by Robert Siegel

Letters

June/July Letters


by Various

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