American Politics
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The Book of Marriage: The Wisest Answers to the Toughest Questions
The Book of Marriage:The Wisest Answers to the Toughest Questions by dana mack and david blankenhorn eerdmans,…
The Vietnam Wars
Like Israelis and Palestinians eyeing each other suspiciously from adjacent hilltops in the West Bank, Americans who…
Will All Be Saved?
The question of universalism—whether all will, in the end, be saved—is perennially agitated in the Christian tradition.…
Putting Parents in Charge
Lincoln warned that the United States could not long survive half slave and half free. To which…
The Stupid Party
One of the reasons intelligent young people are drawn disproportionately to the left in politics is that…
Anthropic Coincidences
How important is the human race in the scheme of things? According to the Epistle to Diognetus,…
Pride and Patriotism
A great many Americans, especially those of a certain age, cannot hear the German language being spoken—by…
G. E. M. Anscombe: Living the Truth
G. E. M. Anscombe, widely recognized as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, died…
A Candid Word About An Untold Story
A hundred and seventy one thousand is a lot of people. That is how many adults came…
Managed by Care
The year was 1962. My sister was eagerly preparing for the brave new world of junior high.…
Conflicts Foreign and Domestic
Among my earliest political memories are the debates I had as a young teenager with my father…
As the New Millennium Begins
The Public Square At the conclusion of the Year of the Great Jubilee, John Paul II issued…
Peter and Mary Together
In “Evangelicals in the Church of Mary” (December 2000), Daniel P. Moloney addresses the problems involved when…
Poetry
Here lyeth . . . (Sarah?) Drake beneath the floor, a Persian carpet lapped across her stone…
The Future of the Papacy: A Symposium
In the February issue First Things published the Erasmus Lecture of 2000, “Papacy and Power,” by George…
