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The Public Square
Benedict Option
by R. R. Reno
Opinion
Stardust to Stardust
by Matthew Walther
Michael Novak by the Sea
by Mary Eberstadt
A Disunited Methodist Church
by Paul T. Stallsworth
Litvak at Large
Look at Their Democracy
by Shalom Carmy
Essays
The Tragedy of the Republic
The decay of political culture in the West
by Pierre Manent
The Moral Turn
by Hadley Arkes
Return of the Strong Gods
by R. R. Reno
Restraining Populism
by Samuel Moyn
Reviews
MacIntyre Against Morality
by John Haldane
Disincarnate Christ
by Gabriel Torretta
Self-Evident, Not Obvious
by Gilbert Meilaender
Empson in the East
by David Bentley Hart
Poetry
Metamorphoses
by Amit Majmudar
Out
by Mary-Patrice Woehling
My Father's Father's Body
by Stephen Kampa
Letters
Letters
by Various
The Back Page
Pilgrims of Progress
by Matthew Schmitz
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