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    From the December 2017 Print Edition

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Letters

Letters


by Various

Opinion

Neither Pop Nor Culture


by Ron Austin

The Florentine Pietà


by Catesby Leigh

Historical Ignorance, Moral Arrogance


by Marc Barnes

Litvak at Large

The Appomattox Compromise


by Shalom Carmy

Essays

Culture is Downstream of Politics


by Maggie Gallagher and Frank Cannon

He Went There

The tale of a displaced pianist

by John Lukacs

Our Secular Theodicy


by Matthew Rose

The Christian Way

A statement by Evangelicals and Catholics Together

by Evangelicals and Catholics Together

Reviews

Politics After Liberalism


by Phillip Blond

To Imagine Excellence


by A. M. Juster

Döllinger’s Unquiet Grave


by Grant Kaplan

Against Capital Punishment


by Paul J. Griffiths

Big Mullah


by Randy Boyagoda

The Public Square

Liberal Tradition, Yes; Liberal Ideology, No


by R. R. Reno

The Back Page

You Can Say That


by Mark Bauerlein

Poetry

Fire Up a Candle


by Timothy Murphy

The Fourth Sunday of Advent


by James Matthew Wilson

Here Is What I’d Like to Say to You

—Brian Doyle: Cento*

by Kathleen Gunton

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