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The Public Square

Mustard Seeds


by R. R. Reno

Opinion

Down and Out at Del Mar


by Mark Bauerlein

Cocktail Theology


by William Dailey

Soros and Simony


by Charlotte Allen

The Protest


by Malcolm Rivers

Essays

Transgender Conformity


by Katherine Kersten

Vulgar Deconstruction


by Mark Bauerlein

Healing the Dying


by Lydia Dugdale

Gnostic Liberalism


by Robert P. George

Reviews

Where We Stand


by Carl R. Trueman

Leaving the Party


by Daniel Ritchie

Man, Lion, Calf, and Eagle


by David Lyle Jeffrey

Cauldron of Resentment


by Phillip Round

A Gentle Orthodoxy


by Cyril Hovorun

Briefly Noted


by Elliot Milco, Luke Foster, Logan Paul Gage, Todd C. Ream, Alexi Sargeant, Matthew Schmitz

While We're At It

While We’re at It


by R. R. Reno

Poetry

Shepherd


by D. S. Martin

Last Stab at Goodness


by Stephen Kampa

Tinsel, Frankincense, and Fir


by Dana Gioia

The Snowstorms that Remain


by Robert W. Crawford

On My Late Grandmother Still Receiving Mail


by J. P. Celia

God Talk


by John Whitworth

Letters

Letters


by Various

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