Aug/Sept 2002
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Onward Catholic Soldiers?
I’m grateful for what I’ve learned from the letters to First Things about my exchange with George…
Newman on the Personal
There immediately follows a piece of vintage Newmanian satire. He imagines the division of mind that is…
Nietzsche’s Truth
In the months before his final descent into madness, Friedrich Nietzsche made the following declaration and prediction:…
Your Word Is Truth
In the spring of 1994, a group of Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants issued a much-discussed statement,…
Stem Cells and False Hopes
We have all witnessed the transforming power of hope—the focus and sustenance hope provides when strength and…
A New Religious America
In recent years, the decade of the 1960s has become a popular subject for courses in university…
Dixie, U.S.A.
I went in search of Dixie, and discovered that I could find only traces of it. On…
Listening to Pacifists
In the First Things editorial “In a Time of War” (December 2001), the Editors argued that pacifists…
Small Wars, Big Plans
Less than a year after the attack of September 11, Americans have just about succeeded in absorbing…
Briefly Noted 45
Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society . By David Sloan Wilson. University of Chicago…
Returning to Reason Reasonably
Stephen Toulmin’s Return to Reason provides an occasion to reflect on the remarkable fact that our faith…
The Limits of Theory
While his professional work is primarily in elementary particle physics, Steven Weinberg became widely known to the…
The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration
The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration—a somewhat mistitled, often uneven, but extremely provocative…
A Friend of the Jews
The ongoing debate about Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) and his actions (or lack of actions) in…
Scandal Time III
So, will there be further installments of this running commentary, Scandal Time IV through XIV, ad infinitum?…
The Adversarial Courts
In November 1996, we published a symposium, “The End of Democracy?”, on what we called “the judicial…
The Wisdom of the Elders
It was that time of year again, and thousands of commencement speakers hoped that millions of graduates…
While We’re At It
• Venom delivered with strained cleverness. That pretty much describes Maureen Dowd’s column in the Times. She’s…
Poetry
When my fantasies, and these extreme regrets, shut my eyes in sleep, I discover, before me, the…
