| Correspondence | 4 |
| No voodoo economics-yet | 5 |
| The mouths of babes | 6 |
| Donnelly, Daria | |
| Philosopher on call | 8 |
| Callahan, Sidney | |
| Is nothing sacred?: On cabbages & stem cells | 9 |
| Garvey, John | |
| Albanians in Macedonia | 10 |
| Pfaff, William | |
| No easy choices: Japan honors its war dead | 12 |
| Hillenbrand, Barry | |
| AXIOMS OF FAITH: A young writer speaks for her generation-and then some. | 14 |
| Nussbaum, Anna | |
| OTHER VOICES: Selections from Commonweal's Younger Writers Contest | 17 |
| Naffziger, Ann & Urbanski, Grace M. & Dix, Jason A. Spak Tara K. | |
| HISPANIC CATHOLICS: A new era in American Catholicism | 19 |
| Matovina, Timothy | |
| Murder in Small Town X | 22 |
| Wren, Celia | |
| Waging Modern War | 24 |
| Jaeger, Wesley K. Clark George | |
| Kosovo | 26 |
| Buckley, William Joseph & Langan, John | |
| The Truth of Power | 28 |
| Barber, Benjamin R. & Wolfe, Alan | |
| Night of Stone | 30 |
| Merridale, Catherine & McWilliams, Susan | |
| The Rackets | 32 |
| Kelly, Thomas & Deignan, Tom | |
| Where's the beef? | 38 |
| Reidy, Maurice Timothy |
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