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Articles
How Pedophilia Lost Its Cool
by Mary Eberstadt
The Nature of Desire
by Paul J. Griffiths
Pulling the Plug on the Conscience Clause
by Wesley J. Smith
The Needle’s Eye
Why America’s Economic Recovery Needs the Global South
by David P. Goldman
The Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel
by Reuven Kimelman
Opinion
Wondrous and Silly
Picture Books of 2009
by Margaret E. Perry
Thrillers and Throwbacks
Mystery Books of 2009
by Jon L. Breen
Lives and Legacies
Biographies of 2009
by Justin Torres
The Public Square
A Demand for Freedom
by Joseph Bottum
Reviews
Justifying Paul
by Gary Culpepper
In Between the Angels and the Apes
by Rev. Thomas V. Berg
Freedom for Faith, Freedom for All
by Richard W. Garnett
In America’s Image
by Robert Bruce Mullin
Death for Fun and Profit
by John Sutherland
Whose Modernity? Which Revolution?
by Thomas S. Hibbs
Briefly Noted - 12/09
by Various
Poetry
Women Bent with Infinity
by Lou Ella Hickman
Majority
by Dana Gioia
Advent Carol
by Julie Stoner
Farm Boy, Call Kayla
by Timothy Murphy
Believer
for Timothy Murphy
by Rhina P. Espaillat
Bavarian Baroque
by Gail White
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