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A selection of recent articles on this topic

The November Issue of First Things Has Arrived

Joseph Bottum

“Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran,” writes Alan Jacobs in the new issue…

First Things Issues (So to Speak)

Amanda Shaw

A longtime subscriber has more than a decade of past issues of First Things ¯but lacks the…

God and Imaginary Numbers

Amanda Shaw

Impossible, irrational, delusionary, absurd, untrustworthy, fictitious, imaginary: You can’t read much about religion today without encountering these…

Why Do the Heathen Rage?

Anthony Sacramone

An extended dialogue between biologist Richard Dawkins and Christian apologist Alister McGrath¯originally shot for Dawkins’ BBC documentary…

Land of Lincoln: A Review

Brian Murray

In the elementary schools of the American Midwest, Abraham Lincoln has always enjoyed a good press. Schoolchildren…

A Criterion for Compromises

Richard John Neuhaus

Our friends over at the New Criterion have put out a big anthology including the editors’ choice…

The Malling of Mecca

Michael Linton

It’s big. No, I mean really BIG. And I’m not talking about the Burj Dubai , which…

How to Pray

Elizabeth Powers

As a Catholic growing up in the years before Vatican II, I knew very few Protestants, much…

The Aug-Sept Issue of First Things Is Online!

Joseph Bottum

Another day, another dollar. Well, actually, another month, another issue of First Things . And the cost…

The Relevance of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Peter J. Leithart

“Obscure” hardly begins to describe the obscurity of the German-American thinker Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888¯1973). Though never a…

Antinomies of Limbo: Some Historical Milestones

Edward T. Oakes

Speaking only on my own behalf here, I was quite struck by the carefully balanced sobriety of…

Religion and Economics III: The Hoary Objections to Capitalism

Michael Novak

We keep pulling¯out of bleak embers¯the objections to the American economic system that were already cold thirty…

Donate Now or We’re Calling UPS

Anthony Sacramone

As you may or may not remember, last week was Pledge Week . This week (or what’s…

Religion and the Common Good

Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

Sooner or later, every teacher hears the same old joke about the philosophy student and his dad.…

Put on Your Body Armor

Michael M. Uhlmann

Concerning yesterday’s decision in Gonzales v. Carhart , a few preliminary observations based on a very quick…