| Correspondence The war | 4 |
| Editorial Sit tight | 5 |
| Orthodox views | 7 |
| Garvey, John | |
| A new kind of war | 8 |
| Pfaff, William | |
| Unlikely hawks | 9 |
| Dionne, E.J. Jr. | |
| From the archives December 10,1954 | 10 |
| TOM WOLFE, MATERIAL BOY | 11 |
| Cooper, Rand Richards | |
| OLDIES BUT | 16 |
| Wren, Celia | |
| The Leper's Companions | 18 |
| Blackburn, by Julia | |
| Saint Augustine | 20 |
| Wills, by Garry | |
| The Secret Lives of Citizens by Thomas Geoghegan | 22 |
| Appy, Chris | |
| Generations | 24 |
| Siegel, Joan I. | |
| Devil Take the Hindmost | 25 |
| Chancellor, by Edward | |
| The Eucharist in the West by Edward J. Kilmartin, S.J. | 26 |
| Pelikan, Jaroslav | |
| THE LAST WORD | 31 |
| Byrne, Katharine |
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