American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Letters—March 2001
In “Evangelicals in the Church of Mary” (December 2000), Daniel P. Moloney addresses the problems involved when…
The Future of the Papacy: A Symposium
In the February issue First Things published the Erasmus Lecture of 2000, “Papacy and Power,” by George…
Poetry
Here lyeth . . . (Sarah?) Drake beneath the floor, a Persian carpet lapped across her stone…
Papacy and Power
This essay is adapted from George Weigel’s Erasmus Lecture, delivered in New York in November 2000. Pope…
Unremarkably Lutheran
When given the option,” Garrison Keillor tells us, “Lutherans will always downsize.” So far as I can…
Minding the Evangelical Mind
Those of us who call ourselves “evangelical scholars” are accustomed to suspicion from the church and incredulity…
Defining the Humanities Up
Reading a new edition of Allen Tate’s collected essays (Essays of Four Decades, ISI Books, 640 pp.,…
In the Name of Humanity: Reflections on the Twentieth Century
In the Name of Humanity: Reflections on the Twentieth Century by alain finkielkraut, translated by judith friedlander…
What Jacques Barzun Believes, Maybe
The Public Square I share fully the pleasure that our reviewer, John J. Reilly, takes in Jacques…
Joe Lieberman as Rorschach Test
As this issue goes to press, the result of the November election is unknown. But whatever the…
The Human Genome in Human Context
On June 26, two teams of scientists announced jointly that they had virtually completed the task of…
Briefly Noted 27
Johann Sebastian Bach:The Learned Musicianby christoph wolffnorton, 599 pages, $14.54 Great books do not require long reviews.…
