American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Dignifying Family
Those who lost their rights but kept their dignity, as John Paul II and the Polish people…
Germanizing Protestantism
Founding the Fathers: ? Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America by Elizabeth Clark University…
Evangelicals Today
Evangelicalism is a mode of being Christian, more missionary movement than official church. As a result, the…
Aphorisms & Epigrams
Summer’s on its way out, and the first browning leaves of the sycamores here in Manhattan fill…
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...
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…
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...
Bell’s Present Heaven
Explicit confession of the Lordship of Jesus is not necessary for salvation, at least under certain circumstances”very…
