American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What Is Anglicanism?
Few would deny that the Anglican Communion is in crisis. The nature of that crisis, however, remains…
Zen in Venice: An Interview
On July 22, 2007, Cardinal Zen Ze-kiun of Hong Kong lunched with Benedict XVI in Lorenzago di…
70 or 70 x 7?
The New American Bible (NAB), an unfortunate translation episcopally imposed upon Catholics for readings at Mass, has…
Amnesty International’s Moral Incoherence
This May, First Things broke the news of Amnesty International’s change of policy from neutrality to pro-abortion…
Sharing Chores?
My suspicions were aroused when I saw a headline to a July 1 Associated Press story in…
The Silence of Saul Friedlander
In the world of Holocaust scholarship, Saul Friedlander is a major presence. A professor of history at…
Culture Matters
Having accepted Thomas Sowell’s great thesis that differences among peoples commonly attributed to race really reflect culture,…
Why Dictators Fear Artists
Although it has become a somewhat sappy and romanticized notion, the individual artist really does pose a…
Secularist Attacks on the Catholic Church in Britain
One might have expected the Catholic Church in Great Britain to enter a cosy relationship with the…
Romney’s Pornography Dilemma
The headline in the New York Times reads ” Romney Criticized for Hotel Pornography ,” which makes…
The Jewishness of the Roman Rite
Summorum Pontificum , the motu proprio whereby the pope grants a universal indult for the celebration of…
The Neo-Blanshardites vs. the Evangelicals
Recently, when the Supreme Court declined to strike down as unconstitutional a federal law prohibiting the killing…
Illegal Immigration and Our Corruption
With the failure of the immigration bill still causing murmurs across the nation, the topic of immigration,…
A Hatchet Job
We have come to rely on Alan Wolfe as just the sort of “expert” on religion who…
The Aug-Sept Issue of First Things Is Online!
Another day, another dollar. Well, actually, another month, another issue of First Things . And the cost…
