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Letters
Letters
by Various
Opinion
Identity as Ideology
by Theodore Dalrymple
An Affair of Things
by Robert Louis Wilken
The Myth of Medieval Paganism
by Francis Young
Litvak at Large
Private Faces in Public Places
by Shalom Carmy
Essays
Building to No Purpose
A tour of Hudson Yards and the High Line
by Catesby Leigh
Loving to Know
by N. T. Wright
American Pilgrimage
by Stefan McDaniel
Oppression by Indifference
An argument for educational pluralism
by Charles L. Glenn
Reviews
Fierce Loyalties
by R. R. Reno
The World Turned Upside Down
by Matthew Rose
Soul Proprietor
by Edward Feser
Inherited Merit
by Audrey Pollnow
Civil War Catholics
by Patrick Carey
Briefly Noted
Briefly Noted
by Moriah Speciale
The Public Square
Thirty Years at First Things
by R. R. Reno
Poetry
Via Negativa: Mourning Dove
by Laura Reece Hogan
Notre-Dame de Paris, by Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855)
by William Flesch
Julian of Norwich in Seclusion
by Gail White
Some Changed Same
by Elisabeth Kramp
The Back Page
Homesick for Eternity
by Matthew Schmitz
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