Law
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The Bishop and the Nazis
Count Clemens August von Galen, a member of an old aristocratic family, was consecrated Bishop of Münster…
“Speciesism” Opens the Door to Bigotry
Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer popularized “speciesism,” a derogatory term for the belief that it is acceptable to…
Our Faint-Hearted Nationalists
If left-wing cosmopolitanism wins, it will be because our conservative nationalists were insufficiently nationalist. It will be…
Dear Johannes Cochlaeus: Enough Already
Dear Johannes Cochlaeus, You always were a clever one, but this time you’ve gone too far. You…
Evangelicals in Exile
When I was an evangelical convert in high school in the 1990s, the Religious Right was rallying—not…
The Pig-Man Isn’t
There has been much handwringing about the news that scientists injected human stem cells into pig embryos,…
The Flight 216 Selection
Judge Neil Gorsuch is a walking, talking Hollywood writer’s pitch: “I’ve got it! Antonin Scalia meets Jimmy…
Briefly Noted
Bach & God by michael marissen oxford, 288 pages, $35 Michael Marissen, emeritus professor of music at…
Bioethics in 2017
Aside from Donald Trump’s call to “repeal and replace” Obamacare and Hillary Clinton’s promise to repeal the…
My Orange Juice Came from Brazil
A couple of weeks ago when I was having breakfast, I noticed that my “not from concentrate”…
A “Merciless Assault on Human Dignity”
The archbishop of Toronto is given to deprecating himself as “just a simple country cardinal.” In my…
From Atheism to First Things
At the time I came to First Things in mid-2014, I was just a couple of years…
Suffering and Silence
I hope that Martin Scorcese’s Silence, premiering this week, will accurately capture the genius of Shusako Endo’s…
Chaplains of Death
It’s an appalling document. In a pastoral letter, ten Catholic Bishops of the Canadian Atlantic Episcopal Assembly…
China Rising
I just returned from two weeks touring the People’s Republic of China. The Great Wall, 2,200-year-old Terracotta…
