The Spring 2010 issue of The City has been posted in full via Issuu, and is now available below. A list of contents follows – we hope you enjoy it.

THE NEW WORLD
Paul Bonicelli on Haiti & Ordered Liberty
Eric Metaxas asks Does God Want Us to Change the World?
Arthur Brooks on the Future of American Enterprise
Congressman Frank Wolf on Debt: The Test of a Moral Society

ETHICS & SOCIETY
Edward Feser on F.A. Hayek & Scientism
Francis J. Beckwith on Death & Society
Hunter Baker on Martin Buber & Walker Percy
Louis Markos on Why We Still Need Plato
Thomas G. West on the Great Separation

BOOKS & CULTURE
Matt Boyleston on Literature & Faith
Kevin Walker on the Wages of Progress
Daniel A. Siedell on Icons & Iconoclasm

With Poetry by A.E. Stallings & John Updike
And The Word by Jonathan Edwards

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The Winter 2009 issue of The City has been posted in full via Issuu, and is now available below. A list of contents follows – we hope you enjoy it.

FAITH & THE CITY

Jay W. Richards on Christianity & Capitalism

Paul Bonicelli on Man, The State & Your Neighbor

Eric O. Jacobsen on Redeeming the Commons

ETHICS & SOCIETY

Matthew Lee Anderson on Jon & Kate Plus Marriage

Joseph M. Knippenberg on Socrates & Health Care

Anthony Joseph on America’s Abortions

Owen Strachan on Manliness

Louis Markos on Biblical Translation

BOOKS & CULTURE

Harold K. Bush on Mark Twain

David Mahan on Demanding Poetry

Owen Coppenger on Knowing Christ

Christopher Benson on Atheism

With Two Poems by Bill Coyle

And The Word by Saint Ambrose

If you have not already received it, you will soon find in your mailbox the latest issue of The City for Winter 2008. It features many interesting articles, focusing in large part on American politics and the recent historic presidential election. There are also some excellent pieces on what it means to be a young evangelical, and the undercurrent of faith in the works of Cormac McCarthy.

The contents are as follows – we’ll be posting some of these here over the coming weeks:

where do we go from here: a forum
Joseph Knippenberg + David Blankenhorn
Francis Cianfrocca + Susan McWilliams
Peter Lawler + Ryan T. Anderson
Frederica Matthewes-Green

on faith
The New Evangelical Scandal + Matthew Lee Anderson
The Muslim Other + Louis Markos
God’s Love & Life’s Storms + Tony Woodlief

on books
Faith, Fear & Cormac McCarthy : Christopher Badeaux
Grand New Party? : Jon D. Schaff
Schama’s America : Joshua Trevino
The Poetry of Salvation : Micah Mattix

With two poems by the award-winning Catherine Tufariello and the Word Spoken by John Witherspoon.

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