September 2004
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September Letters
War and Statecraft Reconsidered In “War and Statecraft: An Exchange” (March), George Weigel is right to distinguish…
Islamic Counter-Reformation
Here in the West, one response to the growth of militant extremist Islam has been to suggest…
Traducing Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is one of the great souls of the age. He is also among its most…
The Necessary Amendment
Within the next two or three years, the Supreme Court will almost certainly climax a series of…
Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty
A great paradox of America’s constitutional order today is that judges have never been more powerful, yet…
An Era’s Last Hurrah
A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O’Connor By Charles F. Duffy Catholic University of…
Briefly Noted — 08/04
In Defense of Globalization by jagdish bhagwati oxford university press. 308 pp. $28. There are many books…
Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism
On a trip to Boston a few years ago, I made a pilgrimage to one of America’s…
Whose View of Life? Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells
The question of when human life commences is one of longstanding philosophical and scientific interest. In our…
Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars
Who Rules in Science? is a marvelous book that ranges from the most basic questions to the…
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In Defense of Globalization . By Jagdish Bhagwati. Oxford University Press. 308 pp. $28. There are many…
How Are We Doing?
“How is First Things doing?” The question is regularly asked wherever I go, and I am glad…
Anti-Semitism and False Alarms
Although repercussions may extend far into the future, we can now get a measure of critical distance…
To Be American
It hardly seems like all of eight years ago that Samuel P. Huntington gave us The Clash…
While We’re At It
• This is a true story. At least the Seattle Times says so. Two lesbians living together…
Communion & Communio
Forty-four years is a long time and a lot has changed since the last Catholic ran for…
Keeping Rogue Science Rogue
There has been a lot of tongue-biting by pro-lifers in connection with the most recent report of…
