American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Unheavenly Urban Philosopher
Most of us, in our effort to make sense of life, begin at home: we try, in…
What Aquinas Really Said About Women
In several passages in the Summa Theologiae and elsewhere, Thomas Aquinas asserts that the inferiority of women…
Don’t Write About Race
The cardinal rule of writing about race is: don’t. There are several reasons why. First, it is…
The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene
Graham Greene was a great novelist of a special kind. Unlike many literary practitioners in this century,…
The Bus Stops Here
It’s a sad but unavoidable question: Where did the civil rights movement go wrong? A cause that,…
Abraham Lincoln & the Last Best Hope
The beginning of the ninth century of the millennium now almost past was promising enough. The Congress of…
Human Dignity, Human Rights
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 97 (November 1999): 39-42. Fifty years ago, a tangle of intellectual and…
Metaphysics Matters
In Defense of Natural Law by robert p. george clarendon/oxford university press, 343 pages, $65 In his…
State vs. Society
Behemoth: Main Currents in the History and Theory of Political Sociology by irving louis horowitz transaction, 474…
Separation Anxiety
The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity by leon j. podles spence, 350 pages, $20.34 Leon Podles…
Culture War No More?
Most American conservatives think they’re engaged in a culture war, and many of them think they’re losing…
Liberating Germaine Greer
I never met Germaine Greer, but I did see her once in live performance—and a most diverting…
Are We Spiritual Machines?
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 96 (October 1999): 25-31. For two hundred years materialist philosophers have argued…
A Confederate Theodicy
A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South.By Eugene…
The Idea of Moral Progress
Almost everybody agrees that progress is a good thing. But most self-evidently good things, when examined more…
