American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Hemlock and the Cross
In early July 1759, three friends met at an inn called the Windmill outside the German city…
Poetry(February 2003)
The Arts that sensuously address The raising of the consciousness Bloom in a spread of themes and…
Lincoln on Judicial Despotism
After the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education ordering the desegregation of…
What Else to Expect When You’re Expecting
Last Christmas our parish hall displayed a Nativity painting by a local artist, showing a dark-haired woman…
A Grammar of the Self
You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves whether they…
Thirty Years of Empty Promises
In the long and arduous fight leading up to Roe v. Wade, the one thing feminists were…
The Disconsolate Philosopher
the making of a philosopher by colin mcginn harpercollins, 241 pp., $25.95 Philosophy is made for man, not…
Constitutional Persons: An Exchange on Abortion
Readers of First Things should by now be well-acquainted with the heated national debate—in part inspired by…
Voting What You Believe
Republicans are the party of the religious, while Democrats are the party of secularists. That, you may…
The Perils of Partisan History
Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth by Stephen F. Knott University Press of Kansas, 336 pages,…
Moral Clarity in a Time of War
In Book Three of Tolstoy’s epic, War and Peace, the hero, Pierre Bezukhov, arrives at the battlefield…
Peddler of Paradise
Recently I witnessed a spectacle unlike anything I have seen in twenty years: a mass wedding celebrated…
January Letters 49
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Pacifism Redux
We, the undersigned, are grateful to Darrell Cole for “Listening to Pacifists” (August/September). He writes with charity,…
A Musical Requiem
Timing is everything. To complete his three-year tenure as composer-in-residence with the Pacific Symphony (an ensemble in…
