American Politics
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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…
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…
The Great Terror
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by stéphane courtois, nicolas werth, jean-louis panné, andrzej paczkowski,…
