American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Homosexual Marriage, Homosexual Parenting, and Adoption: Unabridged
This essay unfortunately has a number of plagiarized passages that were only discovered after First Things had…
Letters
Roe’s Legacy While Jon Shields’ provocative piece (“Roe’s Pro-Life Legacy,” January) credits the Supreme Court decision with…
Briefly Noted
Nicholas of Cusa: A Companion to His Life and His Times by Morimichi Watanabe edited by Gerald…
Some Assembly Required
Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages by Ian Christopher…
Defending Marriage
What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P.…
Lilacs
Lilacs, pummeled in pounding rain, their sweetness sweeter for the pain, release redemptive suffering scent as they…
Catechism on the Road
A frosty sunlit Sunday morning. We, Still sleepy on our way to early Mass, Were snapped alert”sudden…
Unjust Secular Justice
The Machinery of Criminal Justice by stephanos bibas oxford, 320 pages, $75 There are two criminal justice…
Sex in the Meritocracy
When Yale first bowed to the spirit of meritocracy and began admitting large numbers of students from…
War Without End
Paul Miller’s essay is a plea for Americans to persevere in a military undertaking in Afghanistan that…
Reflections on the Revolution in Rome
As mediated by the journalists, the story of the Second Vatican Council was framed as a battle…
Who’s Afraid of the Awful Truth?
Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which opened on Broadway on the eve of the…
Man the Mystery
From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution by Brendan…
Augustine in the Dust
Sergeant Dwayne Miller’s breath came quick and his jaw clenched as he began relating a story to…
Jacob and Esau
From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965 by John Connelly Harvard,…
