Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Supreme Confusion
Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History by Joseph W. Dellapenna Carolina Academic Press, 1,300 pages, $95 History…
America and Its Dead
You can see them at many grave sites where the War of Independence was fought, and the…
Cornflowers
I give you for consideration the reason why cornflowers defy the certainty of asphalt. Impediments to progress…
Disoriented
Tracking a decline, I strayed from the trail traced by my ancestral line. I found the land’s…
Philip Rieff’s Charisma
I don’t think many would dispute that Philip Rieff was one of the most perceptive and creative…
Imus and Me
The spectacle of Don Imus prostrating himself before the Rev. Al Sharpton, as if he were the…
Am I Free to Pour My Own Coffee?
One rarely needs to argue in favor of free will. “Sir, we know our will is free,…
Dodging One Bullet, Shot with Another
Poor Tony Judt. The much-published author of such books as Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945…
It’s Not All Relative
As I wrote in this space last week (see here and here ), many Catholic thinkers tend…
The Episcopal Declaration of Independence
Last week, the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops met and let the world know just what they…
The April Issue of First Things Is Here
The April 2007 issue of First Things is now on newsstands¯which also means that it’s available online…
Humanism and Health Care
I got a letter, a signed letter, from Senator Barack Obama the other day¯me and several million…
The Nature of America
From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority , by Roger Lundin, Rowman & Littlefield,…
Cardinal Newman for Ash Wednesday
No theologian working inside the traditions of western Christianity was more sensitive to the rhythms of the…
Christ Killers, Dumbed-Down Translations, and How Conservatives Got That Way
I have not yet read Jeremy Cohen’s new book Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from…
