American Politics

With the virtual apotheosis of Al Gore, talk of global warming has become pervasive—and pervasively one-sided. Churches…

As a Catholic growing up in the years before Vatican II, I knew very few Protestants, much…

This is one strange book. Strange and frequently wonderful. Weighing in at 852 pages, nobody is going…

Here at First Things , we’ve managed, more or less, to avoid talking about the new atheism…

We play a game in my family called Blame It on W. At first, we were a…

You usually know that somebody is losing the argument when he loses his cool and resorts to…

Robert Miller worries that one of the arguments in my post on Amnesty International is philosophically unsound…

As a longtime reader and fan of

We live in a time of both danger and opportunity for the Catholic Church in the United…

In the early 1950s, or so I’m told, two young men who would later come to world…

Ryan Anderson argued persuasively last week that Amnesty International’s new position on abortion laws makes AI effectively…

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan Yale University Press, 736 pages, $35 Hugh Brogan’s Alexis…

From the day my old man hazed the young cadet to now, as I pull on my…

This spring, the evangelical world was roiled when Francis J. Beckwith, a professor of church-state studies at…

Few would deny that the Anglican Communion is in crisis. The nature of that crisis, however, remains…