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Articles

The Achievement of Alasdair MacIntyre


by Edward T. Oakes

Daniel Goldhagen’s Holocaust


by Richard John Neuhaus

Bonhoeffer and the Sovereign State


by Jean Bethke Elshtain

Opinion

When Insults No Longer Insult


by James Nuechterlein

Last Testament

A letter from the monks of the Tibhirine

by Christian de Chergé

The Courts: Order in the Classroom


by Jonathan O. Hafen

What’s Wrong with Evangelical Theology?


by Peter J. Leithart

To Be Citizens Again


by William A. Schambra

The Truth About Crime and Welfare


by John J. DiIulio, Jr.

Dehumanization Triumphant


by Leon R. Kass

The Public Square

Farewell to the Overclass


by Richard John Neuhaus

Reviews

Briefly Noted 128


by Various

Civilization and Wilderness


by John P. Sisk

Abortion, Set to Music


by Terry Teachout

The Fire in the Equations


by Stephen M. Barr

Thinking Big


by Andrew Bacevich

The Loss of the Family Story


by Kari Jenson Gold

Murray’s Mantle


by Joseph A. Komonchak

Poetry

In the Beginning

Judith Deem Dupree

by Judith D. Dupree

Letters

August/September Letters


by Various

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