Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Newman in the Modern Classroom
I really think learning should be optional, ma’am.” This statement comes from one of my ninth graders…
Debating the Separation of Religion and Politics / The Bishops’ Conscience Clause
Last Saturday, the British magazine The Economist , sponsored a debate on this resolution: “Religion and politics…
Faithful Catholics and Faithful Americans
For the early Christians, living in societies that were at best indifferent to Christianity and frequently hostile,…
Fantasy and Faith
The winter I was ten, my teacher read A Wrinkle in Time aloud to our class, a…
Saving Lost Languages
This is a story¯a creation myth from the Tofa: In the very beginning there were no people,…
No Turning Back
Pierce the Eye of the Needle no caravan can pass. Ride without a saddle a colt, the…
The Florentine Enigma
During the summer of 1502, the young Republic of Florence appeared fated to die as quickly as…
The False Choice Between Development and Daughters
Right now, in almost any corner of the world, a baby girl is being killed just because…
Why Atheism Is Selling … Books
In his June/July First Things article, ” Remembering the Secular Age ,” along with emails he’s been…
Mansfield on Atheism
Here at First Things , we’ve managed, more or less, to avoid talking about the new atheism…
A Right to Do Wrong? A Rejoinder to Miller
Robert Miller worries that one of the arguments in my post on Amnesty International is philosophically unsound…
Why Dictators Fear Artists
Although it has become a somewhat sappy and romanticized notion, the individual artist really does pose a…
The First Openly Muslim Priest
The day before the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops voted to confirm the church’s first openly gay…
The Jewishness of the Roman Rite
Summorum Pontificum , the motu proprio whereby the pope grants a universal indult for the celebration of…
Rejoinder to Miller’s Response
Robert T. Miller is one of my favorite First Things contributors. So it is indeed an honor…
