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Articles
What Does Woman Want?
The War Between the Sexless
by Mary Eberstadt
Economic Justice and the Spirit of Innovation
by Edmund Phelps
The Moral Witness of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
by Daniel J. Mahoney
Be Afraid—Be Very Afraid
by David P. Goldman
Charity and Unity
by Douglas Farrow
Opinion
A Prayer Book of One’s Own
by Yoel Finkelman
A Tiny Pietà
by Matthew Milliner
Origin of the Specious
by David Bentley Hart
The Public Square
The Day for the Religious
by Joseph Bottum
Reviews
We Were Believers Once, and Young
by Gilbert Meilaender
The Book of Judges
by Michael W. McConnell
The Summer of 1683
by Victor Davis Hanson
Beyond the Wild Wood
by Alan Jacobs
Priest to Pontiff
by George Cardinal Pell
Briefly Noted 10-09
by Various
Poetry
An Execration for an Unfaithful Husband
by A. M. Juster
Foster Child
by Sally Thomas
July
by Samuel Menashe
Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose
by Les Murray
Saint Askew
by Samuel Menashe
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
by Catharine Savage Brosman
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