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Letters
Letters
by Various
Opinion
Remembering Peter Berger
by James Nuechterlein
9.5 Theses
by Gilbert Meilaender
The Death of Eros
by Mark Regnerus
Litvak at Large
The Iron Law of Shortsightedness
by Shalom Carmy
Essays
The Splendor of Truth in 2017
by Charles J. Chaput
In Praise of Borders
by Peter Hitchens
A Less Corrupt Term
2016–2017 Supreme Court Roundup
by Marc O. DeGirolami and Kevin C. Walsh
Empathy is Not Charity
by Patricia Snow
Reviews
Catholic America
by Stefan McDaniel
An Integralist Manifesto
by Edmund Waldstein
The Necessity of Judgment
by Theodore Dalrymple
Waugh on the Merits
by Paul V. Mankowski
Briefly Noted
Briefly Noted
by Various
The Public Square
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
by R. R. Reno
The Back Page
Reading is Believing
by Mark Bauerlein
Poetry
Autumn Road
by James Matthew Wilson
Academic Dishonesty Policy
by Shanna Powlus Wheeler
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