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Bottum: Housekeeping

Joseph Bottum

If you look over at the top of the lefthand column, here at the First Things website,…

Powers: The Party of Responsibility?

Elizabeth Powers

The Republicans seem to have lost the values voters in the midterm elections. William Saletan, author of…

RJN: On Love & Madness

Richard John Neuhaus

Here, with thanks to Amy Welborn, a reflection to lift the heart and confirm the will .…

Barr: Dawkins, Unfortunately

Stephen M. Barr

A small price that I have paid for the privilege of writing book reviews for First Things…

Judge William Pryor and Lee Silver

Richard John Neuhaus

Judge William H. Pryor is on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. I count him…

RJN: More on Harper

Richard John Neuhaus

We’ve been having this little back and forth on whether Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, is…

George: Reply to Garnett

Robert P. George

Mirror of Justice , a website for Catholic law professors, has been the forum for some exceptionally…

RJN: The Pope and His Cultured Advisers

Richard John Neuhaus

You recall those awful years of John Paul II’s authoritarian and repressive pontificate when the ailing pontiff,…

RJN: 7.10.06 Philip Rieff has died at age 83…

Richard John Neuhaus

Philip Rieff has died at age 83, in Philadelphia. We never met, but he would write from…

JB: 6.20.06 Cynthia Gorney takes to…

Joseph Bottum

Cynthia Gorney takes to the pages of the New Yorker to report on abortion in South Dakota.…

RJN: 6.8.06 Less than a year ago…

Richard John Neuhaus

Less than a year ago, on July 7, 2005, four bombs went off in the London underground,…

SB: 6.02.06 The Rev. George Coyne…

Stephen M. Barr

The Rev. George Coyne, S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory, has a penchant for theologically risqué statements.…

The Churches of Earthly Power

Russell Hittinger

Michael Burleigh’s study of European religion and politics requires us to imagine a very different Europe than…

Principled Immigration

Mary Ann Glendon

Not for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples.…

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A Short History of Thomism. by Romanus Cessario. Catholic University, 106 pages, $19.95. There are Thomists, and…