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Articles
The Truth About Inherit the Wind
by Carol Iannone
The Several-Storied Thomas Merton
by Robert Royal
Pride and Pessimism in the Courts
by William J. Stuntz
Opinion
In on the Kill
by Alan Jacobs
Bad News
by James Nuechterlein
Catholics and the 1996 Election
by James T. McHugh
The Fragmented Faith of American Jews
by Clifford E. Librach
The Public Square
Forgetting the Source and Summit
by Richard John Neuhaus
Reviews
The Heart of the Church
by Edward T. Oakes
Whig History Revisited
by Norman Ravitch
The Man Who Loved Women and Democracy
by Mary Ann Glendon
Briefly Noted 133
by Various
Exultant Abnegation
by Matthew Scully
Getting Over the End of the World
by John J. Reilly
Poetry
If God Is Any Great Returning
by Warren L. Molton
Of God Is Calling Your Name
by Warren L. Molton
The Last Man
by Charles Gordon Rex
Letters
February Letters 133
by Various
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