American Politics
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On Being a Pallbearer
Recently, I served as a pallbearer for my grandfather on my mother’s side. I had never served…
Apply to Be a Junior Fellow
So, if you look up higher on this page, you’ll see that First Things is beginning its…
John Cardinal O’Connor
Rocco Palmo over on Whispers in the Loggia reminds us that this week , January 15 to…
Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It’s Wrong
On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter…
Better Citizens, More Faithful Catholics
When we speak about a nation’s culture, we mean the entire fabric of its common life, from…
Poets Who Kept Guard of the City
Poetry, the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski explains, springs from the negotiation poets routinely make between “the real,…
American Catholics and Catholic Americans
The calibrations and ruminations of sociologists all too often dress up as expert “findings” what we already…
Harvard’s Postmodern Curriculum
A few years ago, the academic mandarins in Cambridge embarked on a round of curricular revision. This…
Eric Clapton: Susceptible to the Truth
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to…
Sarkozy and Secularism
A few years ago, I was in the middle of giving a lecture in Paris about religious…
Marching Orders from a Postmodern Intellectual
In America we tend to have a division of labor. The university professors are dry and dusty…
The Catholic Fantastic of Chesterton and Tolkien
It is often assumed that G. K. Chesterton and J. R .R. Tolkien were reactionary, antimodern writers.…
January Letters
Defining Darwinisms At a time when many are attempting to foment a conflict between science and religion,…
The Poetry of Paradise
Paradiso by dante alighieri translated by robert and jean hollander doubleday, 944 pages, $40 With the publication…
As Justice Kennedy Said …
When Samuel Alito replaced Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court in 2006, observers predicted that Anthony…
