| Correspondence Confessions, Cuomo, etc | 4 |
| Editorial Raelpolitik | 7 |
| Notebook A word from the editor | 8 |
| Baumann, Paul | |
| Why can't they be like us? Islam & the West | 9 |
| Pfaff, William | |
| Assimilation To dream in Hindi | 10 |
| McGowan, Jo | |
| Prolife Democrats Thirty years after | 11 |
| Hagen, Roe John D. Jr. | |
| MY HUSBAND, THE PRIEST Something lost, something gained | 14 |
| Welborn, Amy | |
| THE ATTRACTION OF ISLAM It was Cairo in July... | 17 |
| Burrell, David B. | |
| Standing in Place in Yellowstone | 18 |
| Partridge, Dixie | |
| Far from Heaven Frida From Hartford to Mexico City | 20 |
| Cooper, Rand Richards | |
| The Unexpected Way by Paul Williams | 23 |
| Griffiths, Paul J. | |
| The Shade of Swords by M. J. Akbar | 25 |
| Pinault, David | |
| Religion booknotes | 27 |
| Cunningham, Lawrence S. | |
| Not so fast Be careful what you ask for | 30 |
| Feuerherd, Peter |
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