Anna Sutherland

Richard Garnett, the Notre Dame law professor who wrote the 2012 Supreme Court Roundup  for our September issue, reviews John Jenkins’ new biography of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist in the Wall Street Journal  today. Although Garnett reports that the book will teach you . . . . Continue Reading »

In the course of downsizing his library, a faithful reader would like to give away the issues of  First Things  he has received over the past decade. Thus far he has not been able to find a good home for them. If you can suggest an institution (or a network analogous to the Theological . . . . Continue Reading »

Writing on the website Catholic Moral Theology, David Cloutier offers kudos to George Weigel for “offering [in  his latest column ] a forthright statement of the constructive and positive economic hopes that conservative American Catholics want.” Dr. Cloutier, a theology . . . . Continue Reading »

My colleague Matthew Schmitz has asked  whether Romney betrayed social conservatives  at Tuesday’s debate, and his answer is no. As he points out, Romney technically did not contradict his earlier statements about the HHS mandate, and considering that the debate moderator was . . . . Continue Reading »

Thomas Albert Howard, a Gordon College history professor and Protestant, observes on The Anxious Bench blog that this month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II and the four-hundred ninety-fifth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. “The two anniversaries are connected,” he . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friends across the pond may be interested in attending a debate next month examining the legacy of Pope Pius XII. Intelligence Squared will host the debate on November 14 at the Royal Institution in London, where participants will take up the motion “Hitler’s Pope: Pius XII did . . . . Continue Reading »

In the weeks since Harvard historian Karen King unveiled the papyrus fragment dubbed “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife,” evidence rapidly mounted that the scrap could be a forgery. The latest discovery: The fragment, which contains snippets from the Coptic text of the Gospel of . . . . Continue Reading »

To complete our series on Jean Bethke Elshtain’s First Things articles before tonight’s Erasmus Lecture , we’d like to highlight  this two-part discussion  of proselytization and religious tolerance from our November 2002 issue. (Paul J. Griffiths wrote the first part . . . . Continue Reading »

Over the past several days we’ve revisited some of Jean Bethke Elshtain’s many fine contributions to First Things . One of her more personal articles is this 1991 reflection on the time a child-rearing expert visited her high school—-and what that experience revealed about the . . . . Continue Reading »

Updating C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters (epistles from a veteran demon to his young nephew) for the late twentieth century, Jean Bethke Elshtain published the “Newtape Files” in the pages of First Things in 1993. (This pre- Erasmus Lecture series on her writing began  . . . . Continue Reading »