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Articles
The World’s Oldest Virtue
by Judith Martin
Sex and the Single Life
by Philip Turner
The Skimpole Syndrome: Childhood Unlimited
by Paul V. Mankowski
St. Evelyn Waugh
by George Weigel
Saving the World
by John P. Sisk
Opinion
The Newtape File III
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
National Service as Duty and Perk
by Midge Decter
The Public Square
Against Peer Fear
by Richard John Neuhaus
Reviews
Domesticating Darwin
by Phillip E. Johnson
Briefly Noted 96
by Various
The Homesick Homeless
by Molly Finn
The Complexities of Natural Law
by David Solomon
An Authentic Modernity
by Michael Novak
Poetry
Man in a Glacier
by Kent Gramm
Black Spruce
by William North
Contraries
by James Andrew Miller
Aceldama
by Kent Gramm
Grandparents
by Ralph St. Louis
Choice Trees
by Ann Horn
Letters
May Letters
by Various
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