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    From the December 2008 Print Edition

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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


by Antony Flew

The Forgotten Story of Postmodernity


by Rein Staal

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

Wrapping Up 2008


by John Wilson

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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