American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Why Do the Heathen Rage?
An extended dialogue between biologist Richard Dawkins and Christian apologist Alister McGrath¯originally shot for Dawkins’ BBC documentary…
Sartre, Legal Scholarship, and Those Troublesome Male Pronouns
I have mentioned before Clive James’ book of mini-essays on intellectuals of the last hundred years, Cultural…
Land of Lincoln: A Review
In the elementary schools of the American Midwest, Abraham Lincoln has always enjoyed a good press. Schoolchildren…
The False Choice Between Development and Daughters
Right now, in almost any corner of the world, a baby girl is being killed just because…
Mugabe and the Churches
Robert Mugabe, the dictator of Zimbabwe, claims to be a man of faith¯and with some reason. He…
A Criterion for Compromises
Our friends over at the New Criterion have put out a big anthology including the editors’ choice…
The Malling of Mecca
It’s big. No, I mean really BIG. And I’m not talking about the Burj Dubai , which…
The Seamless Garment Reconfigured
Hawks and social conservatives in the United States find themselves in a delicate coalition that will either…
Why Atheism Is Selling … Books
In his June/July First Things article, ” Remembering the Secular Age ,” along with emails he’s been…
How to Pray
As a Catholic growing up in the years before Vatican II, I knew very few Protestants, much…
The Politics of Global Warming
With the virtual apotheosis of Al Gore, talk of global warming has become pervasive—and pervasively one-sided. Churches…
Keeping the Humanist Faith, Sort Of
This is one strange book. Strange and frequently wonderful. Weighing in at 852 pages, nobody is going…
Mansfield on Atheism
Here at First Things , we’ve managed, more or less, to avoid talking about the new atheism…
Blame It on W
We play a game in my family called Blame It on W. At first, we were a…
Pandering to Prejudices
You usually know that somebody is losing the argument when he loses his cool and resorts to…
