American Politics

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Day by Day

James Nuechterlein

Richard John Neuhaus had a big life, but his day-by-day world was a small one. There was…

Evangelicals and Catholics Together

James I. Packer

The sudden death of Fr. Neuhaus from recrudescent cancer hits us all hard. First Things itself, which…

The Gift of Lightheartedness

Ramesh Ponnuru

In what has become a winter of farewells for conservatives, the hardest loss was that of Fr.…

Mediating Institutions

Wilfred M. McClay

To Empower People: From State to Civil Society Twentieth Anniversary ­Edition by Richard John Neuhaus and Peter…

Religion, Culture, and Public Life

R. R. Reno

Richard John Neuhaus never seemed to lack for pithy, authoritative formulations. Neuhaus’ Law provides an obvious example:…

Ministering to Ministry

Timothy George

Freedom for Ministry by Richard John Neuhaus. Eerdmans, 272 pages, $26. Among his many books, Freedom for…

Bread Upon the Waters

Arthur Simon

The death of Richard John Neuhaus shocked and saddened me. I learned of it by calling to…

Multiplying Himself

George Weigel

How to capture the essence of Richard John Neuhaus and his impact on others? Perhaps numbers help.…

He Threw It All Away

Robert P. George

In the early 1970s, Lutheran pastor Richard John Neuhaus was poised to become the nation’s next great…

Than Longen Folk to Goon on Pilgrimages

Joseph Bottum

The Canterbury Tales by geoffrey chaucer translated by burton raffel modern library, 672 pages, $36 Chaucer is…

Preserving the Law

Robert Louis Wilken

Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism by paula fredriksen doubleday, 512 pages,…

Candid Headstone

A. M. Juster

Here lies what’s left of Michael Juster, A failure filled with bile and bluster. Regard the scuttlebutt…

Biotech: What to Expect

Yuval Levin

Over the past fifteen years, the pro-life movement has succeeded in enacting some modest limitations on embryo-destructive…

At This Still Point of the Turning World

Marion Montgomery

The winter poplars stand” Strange masts with spars Under cold stars. I shall wait a myriad sail…

A Religion for Atheists

Alan Jacobs

Alain de Botton has been engaged for many years now in an intriguing project”to get people to…