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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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