American Politics
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The Church on the Rocks
The Public Square In the May issue I offered my tribute, written as he was dying, to…
Modernist Impasse, Christian Opportunity
The dawn of a new millennium finds us at what some have called the modernist impasse. During…
The Friendship Club
In 1997, in a seedy back alley just off Fond du Lac Avenue in Milwaukee’s inner city,…
In Plato’s Cave
In Plato’s Cave by alvin b. kernan yale university press, 336 pages, $19.95 After growing up in…
Blaming Bob Jones
Among the nastier and more patently manipulative aspects of the presidential primary season was the accusation by…
The Pope at the National Prayer Breakfast
The National Prayer Breakfast, now in its fiftieth year, has been mainly a Protestant affair, with more…
The Constitution in the Cave
There’s an old and famous story about a community of people who live in a cave. Fires…
Following the Lamb
In its broad outlines, the story of the sixteen Carmelite nuns martyred at Compiègne during the French…
Briefly Noted 23
Imperfect Conceptions:Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in Chinaby frank diköttercolumbia university press, 288 pages, $80 The…
My History and America’s
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), in partnership with the White House Millennium Council, announced in…
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment by john witte, jr. and joel a. nichols oxford university press,…
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus by thomas cahill anchor, 535 pages,…
Letters—March 2000
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…
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…
