American Politics
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I’ve learned to live in wise simplicity
I’ve learned to live in wise simplicity, To look into the heavens and to pray, And wear…
A King in Israel
Israel is a Jewish state but has not succeeded in defining just what that means in a…
Heidegger’s Tragedy
Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933“1935 by Emmanuel…
Six Years in Tibet
Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri’s Mission to Tibet by Trent Pomplun Oxford, 320…
Do Movie Critics Matter?
It’s always a good year at the movies, even if the great films can be counted on…
In His Image
Oh we are many Some too fat Others so skinny Take us back
The Case Against Casey
The recent fight over taxpayer funding of abortion in the national health-care bill revealed not only that…
The God-Seeking Animal
On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics…
Compact
The uplifted unfolded phone casts its lunar digital glow on the face of the young woman pausing…
Christians and Postmoderns
Joseph Bottum, a young medievalist, made his debut in First Things with an account of faith in…
Once and Future Things
It is astonishing, really, that First Things exists at all. The first set of editors”Richard John Neuhuas…
Psalm
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
Saint Agnes Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was, The coach for all his sweaters was acold; The team…
The Annunciation
She bows her head Submissive, yet Her downcast glance Asks the angel, “Why For this romance, Do…
On the Works of Kahlil Gibran
Alan Jacobs reviewed the great twentieth-century poet’s complete oeuvre, and found it verse than expected. From the…
