American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Wagner’s Incestuous Narcissism
The curtain rises in silence to reveal a stage composed of parallel white planks. With the first…
A Splendid Wickedness
The literature of Spain’s “Golden Age” produced two figures—Don Quixote de La Mancha and Don Juan Tenorio—who…
The Cosmopolitan Conservative
Has American liberalism lost its capacity to govern? I’m afraid so. Liberals can still win elections and…
Deferred
I never shot a commie or a Nazi In ’66, but this is what I did: Field-stripped…
Whether Faith Needs Philosophy
Abelard, claimed St. Bernard, was a logic-chopping rationalist whose writings were symptomatic of the anti-contemplative theology of…
Equal Rights, Unequal Wrongs
In most states, young people can drive a car at sixteen. At eighteen, they can vote and…
