American Politics
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Suicide at the Oscars
This year two films on suicide took home Oscars: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 for best Documentary…
ECT at Twenty: A Joint Witness to the Gospel
Over the coming days, First Things will present a set of reflections on Evangelicals and Catholics Together, originally…
Selma and Humane Democracy
Over the weekend, President Obama and other national leaders traveled to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the fiftieth…
American Islam
I read recently that some young Muslims in the United States are complaining that what goes on…
God and the Anthropologists
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faithby timothy larsen oxford, 272 pages, $45 The discipline of…
Books of 2014
The books of 2014, like the books of any year, utterly exceed our grasp. In one aspect,…
Putting First Things First
When in the course of human events . . .” Thus Jefferson and his associates, evincing a…
Reaper at Bay
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End ?by atul gawande? metropolitan, 304 pages, $26 Atul…
Jesus Lovers
The Book of Strange New Things? by michel faber ?hogarth, 512 pages, $28 At last, someone has…
Jesus Was A Healer
Jesus was a healernever turned a patient down never charged coin or conversionstarted off with dust and…
Missing Mass
In our family, we went to Mass every blessed Sunday of the year, and here and there…
Pity the Politician
I live in an aging subdivision, dating back to the 1970s. It comes complete with a homeowners…
My Women’s Studies Seminar
When I started graduate school in English in the early 90s, I thought that a certificate in…
Natural Rights, The Imago Dei, and the Moral Economy of Sex
Remarks prepared for “Human Rights and the Sexualization of Culture,” the Fourth Annual Symposium of the Center for…
Conservative Con Artistry
A breach has opened between the Republican party’s business interests and the party’s activists. It has always…
