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On Loyalty

Jean Bethke Elshtain

If you visit Edinburgh, you can visit the famous statue of Bobby that sits near the south entrance to Greyfriars Kirkyard at the southern end of the George IV...

Vintage Richard

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Over three decades ago, the phone rang in my office at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where I was then teaching in the department of political science. A powerful,...

While Europe Slept

Jean Bethke Elshtain

In the great cathedrals in Europe, a few people—usually elderly women—can be found at worship. Everybody else is a tourist, cameras hanging around their necks, meandering through. I was...

Freedom’s Surety

Jean Bethke Elshtain

American Providence: A Nation with a Mission by Stephen H. Webb Continuum. 173 pp. $22.95 Perhaps Stephen Webb should have added a question mark after the word “mission” in...

Abraham Lincoln & the Last Best Hope

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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The Politics of the Possible

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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Bonhoeffer and the Sovereign State

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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Essays in Understanding

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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Judge Not?

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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Take Back the Mind

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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The Newtape File V

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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The Newtape File IV

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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The Newtape File III

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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The Newtape File II

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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The Newtape File: I

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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