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Articles

Christianity and Democracy


by The First Political Task of the Church

Martha Nussbaum, Poets’ Defender


by Alan Jacobs

Presbyterians Hold the Line


by Terry Schlossberg

Choosing Abundance


by John P. Sisk

Ralph Reed’s Real Agenda


by Richard John Neuhaus

Not So Christian America


by Thomas C. Reeves

Opinion

Apologizing to the Babies


by Joan Frawley Desmond

Neoconservative Redux


by James Nuechterlein

Mercy Killing at Golgotha


by Jeffrey E. Ford

How Partisan Are the Bishops?


by Fr. Robert A. Sirico

The Public Square

Islam Cornered


by Richard John Neuhaus

Reviews

Briefly Noted 129


by Various

Beyond the Therapeutic State


by J. Daryl Charles

The Storyteller and the Scientist


by Phillip E. Johnson

Keeping Company


by Gilbert Meilaender

A Life Beyond Repair


by D. G. Myers

Tracing the Tokens of God’s Presence


by Roger Kimball

Poetry

Creation

Michael R. Jones

by Michael R. Jones

Faith and Hope

Michael R. Jones

by Michael R. Jones

Football Saturday Afernoons, Athens, Ohio, 1953-1956

Saul Bennett

by Saul Bennett

Letters

October Letters


by Various

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