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editorials

An Inconvenient Task

More Than Workers Migrate Between the U.S. & Mexico
by Patrick Henry Reardon

communiqué

Muddle East

The "Arab Spring" As Viewed by Three Non-Arab Neighbors
by Peter Riddell

columns

As It Is Written...

The Man of Prayer

by Patrick Henry Reardon

Contours of Culture

Bobos, but Not Paradise

Daniel Bell's The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

by Ken Myers

The Leading Edge

The Pope & Intelligent Science

by Phillip E. Johnson

24.4—July/August 2011

features

Behind the Veil

The Truth We Don’t Know About Fairies, Leprechauns, UFOs, ETs & Other Entities
by Marilyn Prever

My Water, His Wine

A Small Life-Comedy in Four Acts
by Ralph C. Wood

Global Power Grab

The Cultural Marxists’ Strategic Assault on Religion, Life & Family
by Patrick F. Fagan

views

Mardi Gras For All

Russell D. Moore on Growing Up Baptist Among Bible Belt Catholics

Stirred by Shakers

C. R. Wiley on the Elegant Errors of a Failed Sect

Reformed to Death

Leon J. Podles on the Future of Feminized Liberal Judaism

Godly Hobbits

Lance Nixon on the Pentecostalism of Tolkien’s Inspired Heroes

book reviews

Christ & Culture, II

To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
by James Davison Hunter
reviewed by J. Daryl Charles

God & Freedom

Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order
by Daniel J. Mahoney
God and the Atlantic
by Thomas Albert Howard
reviewed by James Hitchcock

Woe Are We

Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11
by Andrew R. Murphy
reviewed by Franklin Freeman

Tudor Makeover

Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
reviewed by Kiernan Schroeder

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