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Articles

Blessed Are the Green of Heart


by Alan Jacobs

Words of Nectar and Cyanide


by Joseph Bottum

Faith & Finance


by Gary A. Anderson

Why Avery Dulles Matters


by Thomas G. Guarino

Reviews

Slouching Towards Pelosi


by George Weigel

Angels and Ministers of Grace


by Carol Zaleski

The Return of Booker T. Washington


by George McKenna

Two Cheers for Sovereignty


by Jeremy Rabkin

Briefly Noted 229


by Various

Opinion

Shadows in Amsterdam


by Sally Thomas

True Development of the Liturgy


by Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith

Letters

May Letters


by Various

Poetry

Disclaimer


by A. M. Juster

Caesar for a Day


by Timothy Steele

Psalm


by Richard Wilbur

After Sappho


by A. E. Stallings

The Romantic’s Prayer


by Joseph Awad

Admonition for the Seventh Decade


by Dick Davis

The Public Square

Of Second Things and First Things


by Joseph Bottum

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