May 1995
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A Martyr
The Public Square Fifty years ago, on April 9, a few weeks before the collapse of the…
Waco: A Massacre and Its Aftermath
Back in the late 1920s the finger of God touched Victor Houteff, and he left the Orthodox…
The Strange Shipwreck of Robinson Crusoe
Two or three years ago, the first cold winds of middle age came knocking at my door.…
God, Man, and H. L. Mencken
Mencken: A Lifeby fred hobsonrandom house, 650 pages, $35 H. L. Mencken, My Life as Author and…
Preaching As Though We Had Enemies
I am just postmodern enough not to trust “postmodern” as a description of our times, for it…
Getting the Fifties Right
There’s a lot of talk about the 1950s these days, but most of it seems not quite…
The Dionysian Dialectic
Euripides was on to something when he loosed an angry Dionysius on his protagonists. For Dionysius—the god…
The Accent of Choice
As a lifelong Democrat and erstwhile liberal, I’m sorry to have to admit this-but I’m afraid a…
Amending the School Prayer Amendment
The missing clause in the Republicans’ “Contract With America,” which surfaced for a moment after last November’s…
Chinese Greeting Cards and the East Asian Future
The readers of First Things , I know, are eagerly awaiting further reports by this writer from…
Parting Ways?
Systematic Theology: Volume 2 By Wolfhart Pannenberg, Translated by Geoffrey Bromiley Eerdmans, 449 pages, $39.99 Whenever I…
The Judicial Culture Wars
Judicial Power and American Character: Censoring Ourselves in an Anxious Age By Robert F. NagelOxford University Press, 208…
The Need for Moral Memory
The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan By Ian Buruma Farrar, Straus &…
The Case for Christianity
Is Christianity True? by Hugo A. Meynell University of America Press, 149 pages, $24.95 Apologetics-the traditional intellectual…
