American Politics
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Notes from the Editor’s Desk
Many flee New York during the hot month of August, but not at First Things . On…
On Hesperus at Confession
When Hesperus was making his confession of sins, according to the sacred rite, the careful priest explored…
Taxing Boredom
The Pale King by David foster Wallace Little, Brown, 548 pages, $27.99 n It’s not often that…
Greenblatt’s Curious Omission
In the Middle Ages,” said a candidate for a position in medieval literature at my college, “beauty…
Whither Marriage?
Proponents of same-sex marriage frame their cause in terms of civil rights. There are no significant moral…
The Collins Bank Bible
The Holy Bible: New International Version Zondervan 1152 pages, $27.99 With more than 400 million copies in…
Briefly Noted
Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy: Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East“West Unity by Adam A.…
The Song that Ena Zizi Sang
As usual one story will have to serve for one million stories. That is the way of…
Oriental Aspects of Occidental Faith
In my fifteen years in Aberdeen, the Old Aberdeen mosque went from a tiny to a flourishing…
On a Certain Viennese Doctor
Inventing a refined disease afflicting all the human race, he took away ideas of ease, exposed us,…
Bell’s Present Heaven
Explicit confession of the Lordship of Jesus is not necessary for salvation, at least under certain circumstances”very…
The Changing of the Guard
Good for Commonweal magazine. In a recent issue they published a balanced discussion of the Catholic theological…
Exile and Homecoming
Yale professor Carlos Eire is a fine scholar of late-medieval and Reformation history, and a superb memoirist…
Notes from the Editor’s Desk
After three years as managing editor of First Things , Mary Rose Somarriba is leaving us. She’s…
At the Right Hand
Ascension Theology by Douglas Farrow T&T Clark, 177 pages, $27.95 n Simply put,” writes Douglas Farrow, “our…
