American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Who Is John Galt? And Does Anyone Care Anymore?
Tomorrow, October 12, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged .…
The November Issue of First Things Has Arrived
“Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran,” writes Alan Jacobs in the new issue…
God Cannot Be Understood, Only Adored
Whatever one thinks about whether it is possible for Christian theology to be systematic—and there are good…
The Love on Which the World Depends
It has been suggested to me that this wedding homily might be of more general interest. Perhaps…
A New Song from the Old World
Imagine a book on Renaissance art without any pictures. And I don’t mean without illustrations, I mean…
Saving Veronica
On a trip to Crete last March to research onetime Venetian colonies, our class of twelve wandered…
Does Doubt Belong to Faith?
The recent publication of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light by Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., with its frank…
First Things Issues (So to Speak)
A longtime subscriber has more than a decade of past issues of First Things ¯but lacks the…
Anglican Confusion
No one can deny there is plenty of disagreement in the Anglican Communion, but right now straightforward…
What the Apostles Saw
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham Eerdmans, 538 pages, $32 Modern…
After the Dinner
The friend who tells me I’m a selfish ass is drunk, so maybe I should let it…
Economics as Eugenics
Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World is not quite as…
Canadian-Americans, The Civil War, Hillary Clinton and a Strange New Respect for Religion
It’s an odd thing about us transplanted Canadians. In truth, most of my siblings and I (there…
Theology and Civil Authority in Time of War
Two fine recent articles by evangelical scholars serve to highlight a problem I have mentioned before in…
Women and the Catholic Priesthood
In May 1994, Pope John Paul II issued his apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis. It is, as far…
