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The Public Square

​Getting Augustine Wrong


by R. R. Reno

Opinion

​Polite Persecution


by Daniel Philpott

Duke Ellington’s Faith


by Ted Gioia

Essays

Return to Form

The Fate of the Rite is the Fate of the Church

by Martin Mosebach

American Carnage

The New Landscape of Opioid Addiction

by Christopher Caldwell

Struggle Against the Gods


by Gao Zhisheng

From a Vanished Library


by David Bentley Hart

Reviews

Moral Minority


by Patrick J. Deneen

The Dark Russian


by Gary Saul Morson

Mullahs at the Movies


by Sohrab Ahmari

First Words


by Stephen M. Barr

Champagne for All


by Matthew Walther

Briefly Noted


by Nathaniel Peters

While We're At It

While We’re at It


by R. R. Reno

Poetry

Ascension Day: Facing East


by Cynthia Erlandson

XII. Jesus Dies on the Cross


by James Matthew Wilson

Resurrection


by Mary-Patrice Woehling

Letters

Letters


by Various

The Back Page

The Touchstone Effect


by Mark Bauerlein

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