American Politics

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The Engines That Run the World

Richard John Neuhaus

The more cynical may say it is a small price to pay for achieving the stature of…

The Tears of Abraham

R. R. Reno

In his meditation on the sources of human community, “ Death and Politics ,” Jody Bottum makes…

Ironies in the Fire

George Weigel

We all complain at times about the tiresome discussions of the shifting meanings of left and right…

Heroic Conservatism

Stephen H. Webb

Defenders of the separation of church and state deplore no period of Christian history more than the…

Death and Politics Revisited

Joseph Bottum

On March 17 at 7:00 pm, I’ll be giving a lecture at Georgetown University’s ICC Auditorium called…

Books That Matter

R. R. Reno

Books are like minerals, buried and waiting to be found. They lie in dusty corners of used…

Newman on Conversion

Edward T. Oakes

Last Friday, Father Richard John Neuhaus, in a piece about the possibilities of reconverting the nation of…

The March Issue of First Things Is Here!

Joseph Bottum

“A gift cannot so easily be severed from its giver,” writes Gilbert Meilaender, responding to the news…

Realigning Jewish Peoplehood

Eliyahu Stern

On July 22, 2007, the New York Times ran an article by Harvard law professor Noah Feldman…

The Conversion of England

Richard John Neuhaus

Father John Christopher Aidan Nichols, O.P., is a figure to be reckoned with. Aidan Nichols, as he…

Conceiving Parenthood

Jason Byassee

It has become fashionable in some theological and political quarters to eschew the term libera l in…

Protecting the Church’s Freedom in Colorado

Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

On January 30, a coalition of social service providers gathered on the steps of the Colorado State…

Hannah Montana

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Even if you go around with one or several fingers stuffed into each ear, you will not…

Slavery, Christianity, and Islam

Robert Spencer

It has become a feature of today’s atheist chic to shy bricks at Christianity for its record…

Rethinking the Past

Michael Gorman

A New History of Western ­Philosophy by Anthony Kenny Oxford University Press, 4 volumes in one, 1,456…