June/July 1994
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Pro and Con on Homosexuality
Pro and Con on Homosexuality Given a subscription to First Things, I read it eagerly for its…
The Coming Age of Religion
The Public Square La Revanche de Dieu was the French title and it caused something of a…
The Illusions of Military Power
I “These Colors Don’t Run.” By the time the controversy over Vietnam had reached its height, that…
Learning from Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre is not, to put it mildly, very high on the reading list of those seeking…
Politics of Virtues, Government of Knaves
Laws politic, ordained for external order and regiment among men, are never framed as they should be,…
Culture Wars, Shooting Wars
Before the Shooting Begins: Searching for Democracy in America’s Culture War By James Davison Hunter Free Press.…
Why We Need Interreligious Polemics
The intellectual life is essentially and constitutively agonistic. It progresses almost entirely by struggle, by challenge and…
In the Case of Martha Nussbaum
Almost four years ago I wrote in these pages about a pro-choice legal brief signed by 281…
The Intellectuals and the Masses
Anyone seeking a vivid illustration of the proposition that an expensive education is no barrier to stupidity…
The Learning of Liberty
Independence won, George Washington faced a near-mutiny of his officers, unwilling to return to civilian life until…
The Magus of the North
Normally, convention dictates that when reviewing a book by a well-known scholar one should devote one’s opening…
Letting Go How We Die
A professor of constitutional law and a doctor write about dying and death from their respective points…
