The ''New Oxford Review'' is a magazine of

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cultural and theological commentary.New Oxford Review, About
/ref>Ronald Lora, William Henry Longton, ''The conservative press in twentieth-century America'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999, p. 20

/ref>Mary Jo Weaver, ''Being right: conservative Catholics in America'', Indiana University Press, 1995, p. 34

/ref> It was founded in 1977 by the

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as an

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magazine in the

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tradition to replace '' American Church News''. It was named for the

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of the 1830s and 1840s. In 1983, it officially " converted" to Catholicism. During its earlier history, the championed

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's condemnation of the dissenting Catholic theologian

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. It supported

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in his condemnation of the

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. Chester Gillis, ''Roman Catholicism in America'', Columbia University Press, 1999, p. 4

/ref> Originally headquartered in

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, it is now headquartered in

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. It has a paid circulation of 12,000. It has published writing by

Walker Percy Walker Percy, OSB (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, ''The Moviegoer'', won the Nat ...

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, Thomas Howard, George A. Kelly, Bobby Jindal,

Stanley L. Jaki Stanley L. Jaki (Jáki Szaniszló László) (17 August 1924 in Győr, Hungary – 7 April 2009 in Madrid, Spain) was a Hungarian-born priest of the Benedictine order. From 1975 to his death, he was Distinguished University Professor at Seton Ha ...

Peter Kreeft Peter John Kreeft (; born March 16, 1937) is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College. A convert to Roman Catholicism, he is the author of over eighty books on Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. He also f ...

Avery Dulles Avery Robert Dulles (; 1918–2008) was an American Jesuit priest, theologian, and cardinal of the Catholic Church. Dulles served on the faculty of Woodstock College from 1960 to 1974, of the Catholic University of America from 1974 to 1988, a ...

Germain Grisez Germain Gabriel Grisez (September 30, 1929 – February 1, 2018) was a French-American philosopher. Grisez's development of ideas from Thomas Aquinas has redirected Catholic thought and changed the way it has engaged with secular moral philosophy. ...

, James V. Schall, and

John Lukacs John Adalbert Lukacs (; Hungarian: ''Lukács János Albert''; 31 January 1924 – 6 May 2019) was a Hungarian-born American historian and author of more than thirty books. Lukacs was Roman Catholic. Lukacs described himself as a reactionary. L ...

. Contributing editors have included Robert N. Bellah,

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, Robert Coles, and

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