Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Occidental Difference
What Is the West? by Philippe Nemo Duquesne University Press, 155 pages, $18.95 Back in the late…
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Ambrose’s Patriarchs: Ethics for the Common Man by Marcia L. Colish University of Notre Dame Press, 208…
Arkes: The Commerce Clause Revisited
In the forthcoming January issue of First Things , I have an analysis of the oral arguments…
Anderson: What Went Right on Tuesday
I’m no expert when it comes to analysis of political trends, party politics, or electoral strategy. But…
Mathewes-Green: Thoughts on Haggard
I was in Denver for about a hundred minutes this weekend. I hadn’t planned it, but when…
Anderson: Marriage Ruling in New Jersey
Yesterday’s Lewis v. Harris ruling by the New Jersey State Supreme Court is truly unfortunate. In a…
RJN: Europe, the Founders, and the Archdiocese of New York
Jewcentricity is a word that will probably not catch on, but Adam Garfinkle employs it to good…
RJN: The Debates Rage
You will not be surprised to learn that I am solidly on Ross Douthat’s side in his…
Bottum: On Robertson Davies
Is it just my imagination or has Robertson Davies faded considerably over the past decade? I was…
Public Morality, Public Reason
A contest of worldviews in our time pits devout Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other believers against secularist…
Barbara Pym’s Affectionate Irony
By the time I came of reading age—old enough to pass the portals of the library’s “youth…
The Book of Splendor
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1 translated by Daniel C. Matt Stanford University Press, 584 pages, $49.95.…
Confessing Mysticism
The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions by John Peter Kenney Routledge, 160 pages, $115. FOR…
Correspondence
Fostering Care I read with great interest Gregory Popcak’s “Misplacing Children” (June/July). As the father of four…
RJN: The Times and the Church
Those sixteen words have taken a terrible beating in the past fifty years. For most of our…
