American Politics
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My History and America’s
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), in partnership with the White House Millennium Council, announced in…
Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist by richard rhodes knopf, 384 pages, $15.25 Lonnie…
The Essential Chesterton
It would no doubt be foolish to suggest that there is a single, essential contribution which Gilbert…
Rethinking the Crusades
On July 15, 1999, the nine-hundredth anniversary of the fall of Jerusalem to the crusaders, a party…
In the Beginning
Anniversaries are occasions for nostalgic celebration, for recalling to oneself and others how it is that this…
The First Ten Years – Putting First Things First
Upon rereading the following editorial, which may be viewed as a statement of purpose and hope, there…
A Confessional State?
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 101 (March 2000): 2-9. A Confessional State? In ” Proposing Democracy Anew”Part…
Poetry
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 101 (March 2000): 15, 26, 38, 63, 68. Annas (to Caiaphas) This…
Born Toward Dying
We are born to die. Not that death is the purpose of our being born, but we…
The Great Terror
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by stéphane courtois, nicolas werth, jean-louis panné, andrzej paczkowski,…
The Church and the City
Since the official validation of Christianity in the fourth century, ecclesiastical leaders have built places of worship…
Capitalism and the Suicide of Culture
Not long before he died, the political philosopher Isaiah Berlin somberly summed up his, and our, age:…
Sex and the Married Missileer
At Minot Air Force base in Minot, North Dakota, a wife kisses her husband goodbye, knowing that…
Remembering Robert Wood
I am at a Labor Day cookout in Finneytown, Ohio, and all the food has been eaten.…
Letters
Natural Law and Metaphysics I was puzzled by many aspects of Phillip E. Johnson’s exposition of the…
