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Danger and Opportunity: A Plea to Catholics
We live in a time of both danger and opportunity for the Catholic Church in the United…
Innocents Abroad
Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan Knopf, 527 pages, $30 “These Yankees are most disagreeable Fellows to have…
Why Dictators Fear Artists
Although it has become a somewhat sappy and romanticized notion, the individual artist really does pose a…
Culture Matters
Having accepted Thomas Sowell’s great thesis that differences among peoples commonly attributed to race really reflect culture,…
A Hatchet Job
We have come to rely on Alan Wolfe as just the sort of “expert” on religion who…
The Aug-Sept Issue of First Things Is Online!
Another day, another dollar. Well, actually, another month, another issue of First Things . And the cost…
The Relevance of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
“Obscure” hardly begins to describe the obscurity of the German-American thinker Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888¯1973). Though never a…
Orwellian Monitors
A pastoral colleague finds it “Orwellian.” He is describing the proposal before the church council of the…
Faithful Reason About Stem Cells
Two years ago, William Saletan¯Slate.com’s science reporter¯compared the typical approaches of Jewish and Catholic thinkers to bioethical…
Update on Stem-Cell Research
It made the front page of the New York Times , but don’t let that dissuade you¯reports…
Brownback’s Faith and Reason
At the recent debate among Republican presidential candidates, Chris Matthews asked the candidates to raise their hands…
Catholic Politicians and Excommunication
Earlier this month, a reporter asked Pope Benedict XVI whether he agreed with the Mexican bishops who…
America and Its Dead
You can see them at many grave sites where the War of Independence was fought, and the…
The June/July Issue of First Things Is Here!
Well, well, well. The June/July issue of First Things has arrived, and in the annals of human…
A Lutheran Pastor Says ‘Here I Stand’ in Delaware
In Delaware, the state legislature is debating embryonic stem cell research. A copy of some correspondence about…
