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The New Criterion

May 2013
 
Featuring:

Starvation in Mao’s China by Arthur Waldron
Edmund Burke: the first conservative by Charles Hill
Reinhold Niebuhr’s popularity by James Nuechterlein
Shakespeare & his actors by Paul Dean
New poems by Joseph Harrison & Garrick Davis

And much more! . . .

 


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