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Articles

Discovering the American Aristotle


by Edward T. Oakes

The Idol of Academic Freedom


by James Nuechterlein

The Land Called Holy


by Robin Darling Young

The Nine Lives of Population Control


by Midge Decter

The People Versus Martin Heidegger


by William E. Hughes

Opinion

“Right to Die”—Good Slogan, Fuzzy Thinking


by Yale Kamisar

A Foreign Policy of Avoidance


by Andrew J. Bacevich

Signs and Wonders


by Alan Jacobs

The Public Square

The Couture of the Public Square


by Richard John Neuhaus

Reviews

The Swedish Syndrome


by Phillip E. Johnson

Briefly Noted 101


by Various

Getting It Wrong


by Russell Hittinger

Patiently, Voraciously …


by Bernard N. Nathanson

Undoing the Self


by Ben F. Meyer

The Betrayal of the French Left


by Louis Dupré

Traiders and Raiders


by Mary Ann Glendon

Poetry

Klengel Composing His “Hymnus for Twelve Cellos”


by Hannah Strauss

The Rue of Lot


by Mary M. Brown

Cold Dawn at the Shelter


by Mark A. Noll

December


by Herbert Knapp

Hearing the Rain on a Skylight


by Kathleen B. Nielson

Letters

1993 December Letters


by Various

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