Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Good Grief
You said it, Charlie Brown. Though all we get is grief, They only knock us down To…
March Letters
Stem Cells Sell In “Stem Cells: A Political History” (November 2008), Joseph Bottum and Ryan T. Anderson…
Whatever Happened to Susan Pevensie?
It’s one of childhood’s great narrative shocks. Susan Pevensie is no longer a friend of Narnia. The…
Visiting Geneva
I came to Geneva by the bullet train up from church kero lamps” it must have been…
Examination of Conscience
The Problem of Natural Law by Douglas?Kries Lexington, 214 pages, $25.95 The decade after the Second World…
Body Shadows
Once upon a time the Chairman ordered the complete destruction of the “Four Pests” plaguing China: bedbugs,…
The Population Bomb
Fatal Misconception by Matthew Connelly Belknap Press, 544 pages, $35 Unlike most young academics, who imagine that…
Revisionism
If you believe our liturgies, no marriage may be sundered, but lawyers say six-figure fees can fix…
Background Radiation
Grace bathes us Inside and out, most of it passing right through, Our neuron mesh not fine…
Air on the Side of Prudence
I think that I am suffering From post-neurotic stress disorder A random thought? an ordered world? or…
And His Name Shall Be Called Emmanuel
The One Who Is to Come by Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. Eerdmans, 224 pages, $18 Joseph Fitzmyer…
Bayside Immortals
San Francisco has not allowed burials within its city limits for over a century. Please come to…
Wrestling With an Angel
Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein by Hilary Putnam Indiana University Press,…
The Death of Protestant America
In 1994, after intense study, discussion, and prayer, we issued a statement titled “Evangelicals and Catholics Together:…
September Letters
The ABCs of AIDS The First Things article “AIDS and the Churches” underscores a sad reality in…
