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Articles
The Everyday C.S. Lewis
by Gilbert Meilaender
Life, Law, and Suicide
by NY State Task Force on Life and the Law
The Eminent Tribunal
by Francis Canavan
Discovering the Talmud
by Eric Chevlen
Opinion
Home, Alien Home
by James Nuechterlein
The Nullification Machine
by Bradley S. Clanton
The Imitation of Mr. Starbuck
by Nancy L. Harvey
Theories of Everything
by Peter J. Leithart
David Klinghoffer and His Critics: An Exchange
by Various
“Why Go to Mass?”
by Amy Welborn
The Public Square
The Most New Thing in the Novus Ordo Seclorum
by Richard John Neuhaus
Reviews
Remnants of a Century
by George McKenna
Resisting the Sovereign
by Russell Hittinger
The Secularist Faith
by Michael Novak
Briefly Noted 148
by Various
The New Populism
by Andrew Bacevich
Making the Wager
by Edward T. Oakes
The Bible by Numbers
by William A. Dembski
Poetry
When Rockets Fell Like Stars
by Walt McDonald
Flathead Lake, Montana
"Christ plays in ten thousand places" —G. M. Hopkins
by Luci Shaw
Remains
by Atar Hadari
Letters
August/September Letters
by Various
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