American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Inventing the Crusades
The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam by jonathan riley-smithcolumbia university press, 136 pages, $24.50 Within a month of the…
Collected Letters
The Church’s Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus by Brevard S. Childs…
Atheists and Christians Together
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? by Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank MIT?Press, 416 pages, $27.95…
Briefly Noted 230
Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy by Roger Collins Basic Books, 566…
For a Young Dancer on St. Patrick’s Day
At six, her stance is / Like a professional’s—she waits her cue / Intensely and with no…
For Kashmir
Sooner or later in the night, / He’d spring onto the bed, / Advance along my flank,…
“I Did Not Come to Call the Righteous”
We ninety-nine obedient sheep; / we workers hired at dawn’s first peep; / we faithful sons who…
Confessions of a Coward
Early in April, with the publication of the May issue of First Things, I stepped out from…
Blessed Are the Green of Heart
Some years ago I was leading a summer study tour in Oxford, England, during which as a…
Why Avery Dulles Matters
When Avery Cardinal Dulles died on December 12, 2008, the Catholic Church lost its most distinguished American…
Psalm
Give thanks for all things / On the plucked lute, and likewise / The harp of ten…
Admonition for the Seventh Decade
All the bluster and conceit, / All the hare-brained indiscreet / Obfuscations and obsessions...
To Light a Candle
I first came across the name of Richard John Neuhaus when he was writing religion columns for…
We’re Gonna Turn This Around
Richard used to put up cartoons in his bathroom. One, which stayed there for some time, showed…
I Measure Every Grief I Meet
He was the greatest reader I ever met. The greatest reader, and a cigar smoker, and a…
