American Politics

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Killing Abortionists: A Symposium

Various

Paul J. Hill, convicted of killing an abortionist and his security guard in Pensacola, Florida, has advanced…

Christianity and the West

Wolfhart Pannenberg

This essay originated as the 1994 Erasmus Lecture, sponsored by the Institute on Religion and Public Life.…

On Bringing One’s Life to a Point

Gilbert Meilaender

In February of 1994, in what was its March issue, First Things published a statement on the…

Life at the Intellectual Barricades

James Nuechterlein

“But why do you have to be so polemical?” It’s a not unfamiliar complaint (see, for example,…

Jungians and Gnostics

Jeffrey Burke Satinover

Heresies perish not with their authors, but like the river Arethusa, though they lose their currents in…

Learning from Sartre

John T. Mullen

Jean-Paul Sartre is not, to put it mildly, very high on the reading list of those seeking…

The Hipster and the Organization Man

Wilfred M. McClay

From all appearances, it is now back in style to be critical of American individualism. Indeed, that…

Hatred Under Ice?

Peter L. Berger

There is by now a well-established conventional view about the eruptions of ethnic hatred in Eastern Europe…

It’s the Culture, Stupid

Lyman A. Kellstedt, John C. Green, James L. Guth & Corwin E. Smidt

What really happened in the 1992 presidential election? And what does it tell us about American politics…

Liberalism vs. Religious Freedom

Mark C. Henrie

Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court: The Cases that Define the Debate over Church and State terry…

Abortion Facts and Feelings

Hadley Arkes

The story is told of a young student from an exotic place, a colonial dependency of Britain,…

Rites of Spring

Peter L. Berger

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Cosmic Questions

John Farrell

Dreams of a Final Theory by steven weinberg pantheon, 338 pages, $25 In the second-to-last chapter of…

The Fifties Without Soul

Thomas Sieger Derr

This is not a book review, it’s a complaint. I have been reading—and, I confess, enormously enjoying—David…

Evil: Back in Bad Company

Graeme Hunter

Most Christian thinkers have viewed evil as a privation, a derivative reality, like a shadow. Shadows are…