| Correspondence | 4 |
| The big bangs | 5 |
| Editorials | |
| Shut up, he said | 6 |
| Editorials | |
| Free will | 7 |
| Callahan, Sidney | |
| A tarnished 'Republic' | 8 |
| Steinfels, Peter | |
| Ireland after the 'yes' | 9 |
| Candaele, Kelly | |
| How they see it in the South | 10 |
| O'Neill, Norris L. | |
| AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WORKS | 12 |
| Buford, James A. | |
| Bulworth | 16 |
| Alleva, Richard | |
| The Sound of Music | 18 |
| Kelly, Mary Pat | |
| Summer Reading | 20 |
| Finn, Molly | |
| Summer Reading | 21 |
| McConnell, Frank | |
| Summer Reading | 24 |
| Cahill, Elizabeth Kirkland | |
| Summer Reading | 25 |
| Hunt, George W. | |
| Summer Reading | 27 |
| McCloskey, Elizabeth | |
| Summer Reading | 28 |
| Murtaugh, Daniel M. | |
| Do I kill my father? | 31 |
| Moore, Kathleen Dean |
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