Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Ruiz: Jesus, Manly Man
“Manliness is next to godliness,” ran the Los Angeles Times headline on December 7. The article examines…
Bottum: The Pius War Revisited
Pius XII is back in the news, this time in reports that the man who would later…
Novak: In Praise of Jeane Kirkpatrick
Aristotle wrote that the criterion of good moral action is not a principle or a law so…
Poetry
Nine Bells God in His mercy gave the heavens as a clock to sailors he would save.Driven…
The Occidental Difference
What Is the West? by Philippe Nemo Duquesne University Press, 155 pages, $18.95 Back in the late…
Balthasar, Hell, and Heresy: An Exchange
Alyssa Lyra Pitstick Hans Urs von Balthasar once keenly observed what makes someone an ecclesial theologian: “It…
Briefly Noted 176
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…
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…
Anderson: Marriage Ruling in New Jersey
Yesterday’s Lewis v. Harris ruling by the New Jersey State Supreme Court is truly unfortunate. In a…
Public Morality, Public Reason
A contest of worldviews in our time pits devout Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other believers against secularist…
