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Opinion
Singing Aquinas in L.A.
by Dana Gioia
The New Christian Zionism
by Daniel Hummel
Thanks for Everything, Pope Francis
by James Zacchaeus
Litvak at Large
Babel and Brexit
by Shalom Carmy
Essays
The Three Necessary Societies
by Russell Hittinger
Dress Up
What we lost in the Casual Revolution
by G. Bruce Boyer
The Age of Concentration
by Eugene Vodolazkin
How to Look at a Tree
by Joshua P. Hochschild
Reviews
The Quest for the Historical Mary
by Rachel Fulton Brown
What Del Noce Saw
by Michael Hanby
Mr. and Mrs. Fearmonger
by Andrew Bacevich
Invisible President
by Barton Swaim
Figure It In
by Michael C. Legaspi
The Last Great Homilist
by Matthew Walther
Poetry
The Book of Revelation: A Class Lesson
by Sr. Lou Ella Hickman, I.W.B.S.
Stealing Pears
Augustine, Confessions, 2.4.9
by Duane K. Caylor
Sanguine
by Joshua Hren
Letters
Letters
by Various
Briefly Noted
Briefly Noted
by Benjamin Brady and Randy Boyagoda
The Public Square
Twenty-First-Century Conservatism
by R. R. Reno
The Back Page
I Like It at Home
by Mark Bauerlein
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