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Articles

The Supreme Court 1997

We Hold These Truths

A Statement of Christian Conscience and Citizenship

Melville in Manhattan

by Joseph Bottum

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

by Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger

Opinion

Democracy’s Private Places

Economics as Humanism

by Michael Novak

Remembering the Riots

by James Nuechterlein

“Catholic Gobbledygook”

by Robert Royal

The Public Square

The Approaching Century of Religion

by Richard John Neuhaus

Reviews

Kitchen Table Talk

by Nancy R. Pearcey

Back to the Future

by Elliott Abrams

Briefly Noted 139

by Various

Every Sparrow that Falls

by Thomas Sieger Derr

The Bible Tells Me So

Poetry

I Know Not the Secret

by Charles Gordon Rex

Weather Forecast: Prolonged Dry Period

If God Is My Elm’s Great Roots

by Warren L. Molton

Sursum Corda

Critics Under Statues

by Lawrence Dugan

Letters

October Letters

by Various

Cover

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