American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
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…
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 Annunciation
She bows her head / Submissive, yet...
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…
Zion in Winter
Is religious Zionism in crisis? The 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, and the Oslo peace process that preceded…
Filmmaking by Numbers
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
Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar by Paul Griffiths CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, 235 PAGES, $24.95 n All…
Fast and Furioso
Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation by Ludovico Ariosto translated by David R. Slavitt Belknap, 688 pages,…
Some Like It Warm
These days, in the matter of climate change, simple epistemology has become a matter of dispute. Competing…
Tuesdays With Morbid
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom Hyperion, 254 pages, $23.99 n I would be very surprised…
The Metaphysics of Success
Supposing God to be exactly that / which happens anyway, however tall / you build your house,…
