February 2002
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In a Time of War: An Exchange
In their editorial “In a Time of War” (December 2001), the Editors of First Things declare: “One…
A Century of Skepticism
The left and the right in American legal thought are more alike than different. They are united…
Jews, Christians, and Civil Society
No one, save a prophet, could have predicted the radical change in the relationship between Jews and…
The Continuing Irony of American History
Christianity has always had a complicated, even paradoxical, relationship to the world. It is, first and foremost,…
The End of Magic
Of a fair evening in the mythical but true world of Middle Earth, towards the end of…
The Ineducable Left
The far left’s disgraceful response to September 11”it has temporized about terror, embraced moral equivalence between the…
The Mess That Is Marriage
I had occasion recently to ponder the service folder from a wedding. In many respects this wedding…
The Body’s Possibilities
One week after the terrorist attacks of September 11, I went to the ballet. I wasn’t looking…
Off Center
Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity By Darrin M. McMahon Oxford…
Briefly Noted 40
The 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law. English translation and scholarly apparatus by Edward N. Peters. Ignatius.…
The Burdens of Language
To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays By Czeslaw Milosz Edited by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G.…
A Not-So-Radical Alternative
Kingdom of the Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens Princeton University…
Case for the Prosecution
The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism By David L.…
The Churches and Israel
Christian Attitudes Towards the State of Israel By Paul Charles Merkley McGill-Queen’s University Press, 266 pages, $44.95…
Briefly Noted 40
The 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon LawEnglish translation and scholarly apparatus by Edward N. Peters Ignatius. 813…
A Lesson in Hermeneutics
In Kenya, vervet monkeys take the ground Until a sentry gives a chattering bark, Which in the…
On Giving Blood to the Red Cross
Flow, blood; you are not me but I have known your intercourse since the crimson dawn of…
Redemption
The angels offered reprieve, escape for Lot’s entire household including almost-sons who having witnessed a divine defense…
