American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
RJN: Wielgus
For those who love Poland and admire the vitality of Catholic faith in that country, developments surrounding…
Rose: Free Will and the NY Times
After printing an evenhanded op-ed on neurology and the paranormal (registration required), the New York Times carries…
Rose: Junior Fellowships Available
A junior fellowship at First Things is an intellectually gratifying experience for a young writer or scholar…
RJN: A Doubtful Neophiliac
Mark C. Taylor of Williams College is among the most nimble of nimble minds perched on the…
Miller: Reading the Bishops Rightly
Speaking to the St. Thomas More Society of Philadelphia last spring, Fr. Neuhaus said, “When it is…
Bottum: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese died yesterday, slipping away at age sixty-five after a long illness. A professor at Emory…
Maritain’s America
Since its founding, the United States has elicited much curiosity and commentary from European intellectuals. Oscillating between…
The Mystery of the Aleph
The world God made is infinite”or not. Its essence is of matter”or of thought. If finite”how much…
More on Balthasar, Hell, and Heresy
Alyssa Lyra Pitstick: In his reply in last month’s issue of First Things to my investigations of…
Fear and Trembling
Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz by Jan T. Gross Random House, 320 pages, $25 At the…
Reforming Natural Law
Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics by Stephen J. Grabill Eerdmans, 328 pages, $38 Stephen…
The Closing of the German Mind
The Seduction of Culture in German History by Wolf Lepenies Princeton University Press, 270 pages, $24.95 In…
The Kennedy Court
Only a day after the election, the Supreme Court heard oral argument on Gonzales v. Carhart ,…
RJN: On St. John and Mormons
With stunning abruptness we’re jostled from the Christmas Mass (the Christ Mass) to the feast of St.…
Bottum: Lawyers and the Life of the Mind
Are lawyers intellectuals? They’re smart, certainly, as a class, and they work primarily with their minds. But,…
