American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know it is a fact, but it is nonetheless hard to picture: Had he lived, Martin…
How to Think About Globalization
Soon after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last September, the Economist published…
The Meanings of Marriage
“The apt and cheerful conversation of man with woman is the chief and noblest purpose of marriage,”…
Onward Catholic Soldiers?
I’m grateful for what I’ve learned from the letters to First Things about my exchange with George…
Newman on the Personal
There immediately follows a piece of vintage Newmanian satire. He imagines the division of mind that is…
Your Word Is Truth
In the spring of 1994, a group of Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants issued a much-discussed statement,…
Stem Cells and False Hopes
We have all witnessed the transforming power of hope—the focus and sustenance hope provides when strength and…
Dixie, U.S.A.
I went in search of Dixie, and discovered that I could find only traces of it. On…
Listening to Pacifists
In the First Things editorial “In a Time of War” (December 2001), the Editors argued that pacifists…
The Adversarial Courts
In November 1996, we published a symposium, “The End of Democracy?”, on what we called “the judicial…
Medieval Children
Nicholas Orme, a professor of history at Exeter University in Great Britain, has published more than a…
The Second Tablet Project
assurance which transcends what human reason can find out on its own—no human being dares to face…
Goldhagen v. Pius XII
Tendentious attacks on Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) are nothing new. Indeed, they have become commonplace. Yet…
Films of the Spirit
It is a truth seldom acknowledged that the most delightful art is also the most didactic. Jane…
God’s Justice and Ours
Before proceeding to discuss the morality of capital punishment, I want to make clear that my views…
