American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
A Right to Do Wrong? A Rejoinder to Miller
Robert Miller worries that one of the arguments in my post on Amnesty International is philosophically unsound…
Response to “A Respectful Word on Episcopal Competence”
As a longtime reader and fan of
Danger and Opportunity: A Plea to Catholics
We live in a time of both danger and opportunity for the Catholic Church in the United…
Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926–2007): An Appreciation
In the early 1950s, or so I’m told, two young men who would later come to world…
Is Amnesty International Incoherent?
Ryan Anderson argued persuasively last week that Amnesty International’s new position on abortion laws makes AI effectively…
