Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Novak: The Church in Poland
As an American, far away, with a deep love for Poland, my deepest sorrow is felt for…
Oakes: The Painted Veil
In this space a couple of weeks ago, Anthony Sacramone rightly scored Alfonso Cuarón’s film version of…
Miller: Reading the Bishops Rightly
Speaking to the St. Thomas More Society of Philadelphia last spring, Fr. Neuhaus said, “When it is…
Bottum: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese died yesterday, slipping away at age sixty-five after a long illness. A professor at Emory…
Bottum: Housekeeping
If you look over at the top of the lefthand column, here at the First Things website,…
Powers: The Party of Responsibility?
The Republicans seem to have lost the values voters in the midterm elections. William Saletan, author of…
RJN: On Love & Madness
Here, with thanks to Amy Welborn, a reflection to lift the heart and confirm the will .…
Barr: Dawkins, Unfortunately
A small price that I have paid for the privilege of writing book reviews for First Things…
Judge William Pryor and Lee Silver
Judge William H. Pryor is on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. I count him…
RJN: More on Harper
We’ve been having this little back and forth on whether Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, is…
George: Reply to Garnett
Mirror of Justice , a website for Catholic law professors, has been the forum for some exceptionally…
RJN: The Pope and His Cultured Advisers
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…
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…
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…
Less than a year ago, on July 7, 2005, four bombs went off in the London underground,…