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Articles
Our American Babylon
by Richard John Neuhaus
The Secret of the Self
by Wilfred M. McClay
God on the Internet
by Jonathan V. Last
Almonds to Zhoof— The Year in Books
by John Wilson
Opinion
Jewish Babies
by Jeremy Kadden
Orphans by Design
by Eric Cohen
Scientific Orthodoxies
by Michael J. Behe
Reviews
Who Would True Valour See?
by Wesley J. Smith
The Literary Bible
by M. D. Aeschliman
Persons and Rights
by Russell Hittinger
East of Eden
by Gregory Feeley
Strange Spirits
by Philip Jenkins
Briefly Noted 15
by Various
Letters
2005 December Letters
by Various
Poetry
Advent Windows
by Kevin Andrew Murphy
78 Flavors
by Daniel Waters
The Public Square
The 45 Years That Might Have Been
by Richard John Neuhaus
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