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Articles

Reconciling East and West

by Richard John Neuhaus

In Defense of the Sovereign Family

by John E. Coons

Natural Law Revealed

by J. Budziszewski

Documentation: A Reply to Richard Dawkins

The Forgotten Story of Postmodernity

Reviews

A Governing Shari’a

by Mustafa Akyol

Women’s Work

by Rhina P. Espaillat

Annihilating Nihilism

by Thomas S. Hibbs

The Excellence of Limits

by Christopher Tollefsen

Opinion

Children’s Books, Lost and Found

by Joseph Bottum

What to Give a First Things Reader

by Wilfred M. McClay, David Novak, George Weigel, Midge Decter, and Stephen M. Barr

Wrapping Up 2008

Letters

2008 December Letters

by Various

Poetry

Lifeboat Ethics

by A. M. Juster

Self-Portrait at Fifty

by A. M. Juster

Effable

by Ralph McInerny

The Public Square

Dostoevsky’s Question

by Richard John Neuhaus

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