Foreign Affairs
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Sing Unto the Lord
Jon Vickers:A Hero’s Lifeby jeannie williamsnortheastern university press, 432 pages, $29.95 In opera, it’s good to be…
Briefly Noted 25
All Things Censored by mumia abu-jamal seven stories, 336 pages, $9.97 In one of those moments that…
Saving Chicago
When I heard that the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) planned to send 100,000 volunteers to Chicago next…
The Middle East Without Tears
Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age by r. stephen humphreys university of…
The Holy Feminine
Catherine of Siena by giuliana cavallini, o.p. continuum, 292 pages, $39.28 The Flowing Light of the Godhead…
Human Dignity, Human Rights
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 97 (November 1999): 39-42. Fifty years ago, a tangle of intellectual and…
The Condescension of the Christian West
The NATO-led war against Yugoslavia has had repercussions far beyond the bloody killing fields and battlefields of…
Quebec After Catholicism
In July 1997 Quebec City unveiled a bronze statue of Charles de Gaulle outside its walls. Though…
The World According to Clinton
As part of its professed commitment to “complete the unfinished business of the Second World War,” the…
Letter from Budapest
Murderous cruise missiles crash into factories, office buildings, farm houses, all just across the border in Serbia,…
Old Ghosts
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America by john earl haynes and harvey klehr yale university press, 475…
Letter from Moscow
Visitors from the West are often surprised to learn how many historic Catholic churches are scattered about…
A Populist Foreign Policy?
Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy by eric alterman cornell univeristy press, 224…
Russia Repents?
For anyone watching events in Russia, the confrontation between “reformers,” led by Boris Yeltsin, and their opponents,…
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
The writers and filmmakers of science fiction have been bold in depicting what life will be like…
