April 2015

Freud While “The Back Page” is usually my favorite part of First Things, I must object to…

Jim was holding his one-year-old son while smoking meth freebase when the oily liquid spilled on the…

Generally speaking, there are two principal vocations in the life of the Catholic Church: marriage on the…

Universities exist to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and culture that will prepare them for life,…

I was once told by a young, ardently earnest Thomist . . . you know, one of those manualist…

On November 1, after posting a Facebook message stating, “Today is the day I have chosen to…

St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality on the Lower East Side of Manhattan was one of the original…

Justice Through Apologies: Remorse, Reform, and Punishment 
by nick smith
 cambridge, 413 pages, $33 For decades, American…

The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom by michael shermer …

Why Homer Matters 
by adam nicolson henry holt and co., 
320 pages, $30

 Homer on the Gods…

Christian Reconstructionism: 
R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism
 by michael j. mcvicar
 north carolina, 326 pages,…

Reading Barth with Charity: 
A Hermeneutical Proposal 
by george hunsinger 
baker, 208 pages, $24.99 Rumors of war…

Richard John Neuhaus The biography is out. Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square was researched…

Bumbling, ungainly, sag-chinned, laughable: / on land, the pelicans concede their natures. / Hugging the sand, one…

John Glenn Smith’s last day at home was hot, / cicadas scratching out their shrilling rhythm...

The buyer signed the contract smugly sure / The guarded walls he’d bought would keep away /…

Gethsemane means “olive press.” / A place where the fruit of the tree is crushed and squeezed...

Your Dad is bad, your Mum is mad, / Your brothers all run wild, / And you…