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Articles
When Rights Are Wrong
by William J. Stuntz
Farmers, Founders, and Fratricide: The Story of Cain and Abel
by Leon R. Kass
Are the Gospels Mythical?
by Rene Girard
Second Thoughts About Body Parts
by Gilbert Meilaender
The Problem With Conservatism
by J. Budziszewski
Reviews
Briefly Noted 125
by Various
Ben Bradlee’s Version
by C. John Sommerville
People of the Covenant
by John T. Pawlikowski
Roundup of Books on Mysticism
by John Farina
Madison’s Madison
by Gary Rosen
The Byzantine World of Religious Jurisprudence
by William Bentley Ball
Opinion
The Children’s Hour
by James Nuechterlein
Marriage Anyone?
by Walter Berns
Alone for Others
by Glenn Tinder
Trusting Laws, Trusting Others
by Peter L. Berger
The New Abortion Debate
by Robert P. George and Ramesh Ponnuru
Letters
April Letters
by Various
Poetry
Let This Green Earth
Stella Nesanovich
by Various
The Public Square
A Friendly But Dangerous Embrace
by Richard John Neuhaus
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