March 2000
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A Confessional State?
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 101 (March 2000): 2-9. A Confessional State? In ” Proposing Democracy Anew”Part…
Can We Have a Story?
Some time ago I published in this journal an essay on “How the World Lost Its Story”…
The Essential Chesterton
It would no doubt be foolish to suggest that there is a single, essential contribution which Gilbert…
Rethinking the Crusades
On July 15, 1999, the nine-hundredth anniversary of the fall of Jerusalem to the crusaders, a party…
The First Ten Years – Putting First Things First
Upon rereading the following editorial, which may be viewed as a statement of purpose and hope, there…
The Democratization of Science
“It is degrading to an American to take everything on trust, and even the young farmer and…
Between Father and Daughter
Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Loveby dava sobelwalker and company, 432 pages, $27…
Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism
Throughout the Cold War, Sovietologists contended fiercely with one another over the nature of Communist regimes. Engrossed…
Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
Lonnie Athens, a little-known criminologist at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, has written two books about…
The Death of Medicine in Nazi Germany
For lovers of history and those interested in preserving cultural morality and virtue, the Nazi era is…
Briefly Noted 21
A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition. By John Rawls. Belknap/Harvard University Press. 538 pp. $22 Among academics,…
Culture: the Anthropologists’ Account
Culture is everywhere: moral (read: cultural) relativism; social (read: cultural) construction; multiculturalism; cultural identity, cultural diversity, and…
In the Beginning
Anniversaries are occasions for nostalgic celebration, for recalling to oneself and others how it is that this…
Poetry
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 101 (March 2000): 15, 26, 38, 63, 68. Annas (to Caiaphas) This…
