American Politics

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Six Years in Tibet

David Bentley Hart

Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri’s Mission to Tibet by Trent Pomplun Oxford, 320…

In His Image

Samuel Menashe

Oh we are many Some too fat Others so skinny Take us back

The Case Against Casey

John McCormack

The recent fight over taxpayer funding of abortion in the national health-care bill revealed not only that…

The God-Seeking Animal

Eric Cohen

On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics…

Compact

Michael McFee

The uplifted unfolded phone casts its lunar digital glow on the face of the young woman pausing…

Once and Future Things

Joseph Bottum

It is astonishing, really, that First Things exists at all. The first set of editors”Richard John Neuhuas…

Psalm

Richard Wilbur

Give thanks for all things On the plucked lute, and likewise The harp of ten strings. Have…

The Eve of St. Agnes—Green Bay, 2008

Avery Cardinal Dulles

Saint Agnes Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was, The coach for all his sweaters was acold; The team…

On the Works of Kahlil Gibran

Alan Jacobs

Alan Jacobs reviewed the great twentieth-century poet’s complete oeuvre, and found it verse than expected. From the…

The Annunciation

Samuel Menashe

She bows her head Submissive, yet Her downcast glance Asks the angel, “Why For this romance, Do…

Christians and Postmoderns

Joseph Bottum

Joseph Bottum, a young medievalist, made his debut in First Things with an account of faith in…

Filmmaking by Numbers

Armond White

It’s a sign of the times that Federico Fellini’s 1963 classic 8½ ”widely considered the best film…

Review of Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar

Paul J. Griffiths

Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar by Paul Griffiths CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, 235 PAGES, $24.95 n All…

Fast and Furioso

Laurance Wieder

Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation by Ludovico Ariosto translated by David R. Slavitt Belknap, 688 pages,…

Some Like It Warm

William Anderson

These days, in the matter of climate change, simple epistemology has become a matter of dispute. Competing…