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Articles
How Democracy Came About and How It Might Be Sustained
by The Editors
The Decline and Fall of the Christian College
by James Tunstead Burtchaell
Israel Among the Nationalisms
by Robert A. Licht
Undertakings and Promises
An Anatomy of Sexual Ethics
by Philip Turner
History in the Past Perfect
by Elizabeth Kristol
The Rich, the Poor, and Reaganomics
by Michael Novak
Opinion
The Philosophical Crusher
by Ben F. Meyer
The Vatican and the State of Israel
by Eugene J. Fisher
When Nice People Do Bad Theology
by Kenneth E. Hunter
The Public Square
More on the Gulf
by Richard John Neuhaus
Reviews
A Modern Jeremiad
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
Do You Believe What You Sing?
by Paul V. Mankowski
Beyond Liberty
by Dean C. Curry
The Inscrutable Sinologists
by James Finn
Briefly Noted
by Various
Poetry
Careless Flying
Luke 12:24-26
by Luci Shaw
Victory Near the Plaza
by Lawrence Dugan
When Lilacs Shake
by Robert Schultz
storms
by Donna Frazier
Letters
Letters
by Various
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