Public Life
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While We’re At It
• ‘Tis the season to once again complain about the season. There is something to be said…
The New York Intellectuals, Again
A lot of people don’t read Comment, a magazine published by the Work Research Foundation in Mississauga,…
While We’re At It
• In Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales, there is a poem about the unfortunate “Jim” who gets eaten…
How Are We Doing?
“How is First Things doing?” The question is regularly asked wherever I go, and I am glad…
To Be American
It hardly seems like all of eight years ago that Samuel P. Huntington gave us The Clash…
While We’re At It
• This is a true story. At least the Seattle Times says so. Two lesbians living together…
Religion and Democracy: A Necessary Tension
Many years ago, in 1965 to be precise, Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell, and Nathan Glazer were worried…
While We’re At It
• It is thought to be a very potent plus if your favored cause has about it…
The Church as Culture
Last spring on a trip to Erfurt, the medieval university town in Germany famous for its Augustinian…
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Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith. By Eric O. Jacobsen. Brazos. 192 pp.…
While We’re At It
Sources: On Rowan Williams, London Telegraph, July 25, 2002; Tablet, July 27, 2002; ZENIT, August 4, 2002.…
Re-Evangelizing a “Post-Christian” World
Inveighing and evangelizing go hand-in-hand as Robert W. Jenson, a noted Lutheran theologian, responds to the question,…
Pushing Back
“Here we go again. The December war of religion is among our most cherished traditions. Somebody is…
On Modernity and Train Wrecks
Our Jody Bottum—I say “our” because I’ve never quite accepted his defection to the Weekly Standard—gets into…
While We’re At It
· I won’t go so far as to say that some of my best friends are, but…
