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Articles
Capital Punishment: The Case for Justice
by J. Budziszewski
Ethics & Life’s Ending
by Gilbert Meilaender and Robert D. Orr
Christ and Critical Theory
by Paul J. Griffiths
The Devil’s Chaplain
by Stephen M. Barr
Opinion
Islamic Counter-Reformation
by Paul Marshall
Traducing Solzhenitsyn
by Daniel J. Mahoney
The Necessary Amendment
by Robert H. Bork
The Public Square
Communion &
Communio
by Richard John Neuhaus
Reviews
Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty
by Paul O. Carrese
An Era’s Last Hurrah
by Joseph Bottum
Briefly Noted 22
by Various
Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism
by R. R. Reno
Whose View of Life? Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells
by Maureen L. Condic
Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars
by Michael J. Behe
Briefly Noted 23
by Various
Letters
August/September Letters
by Various
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