American Politics
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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…
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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…
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…
