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Letters

Market or Moral Failure?

Various

Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 103 (May 2000): 2-6. Market or Moral Failure? The seductive appeal of…

Essays

By the Blood of His Cross

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square There is this odd thing that all the social science data agree that the…

The Very Idea of Religion

Paul J. Griffiths

The study of religion as an academic discipline is now close to a century and a half…

To Wonder Again

Eric S. Cohen

Modern societies are the best equipped in history at satisfying man’s immediate desires: food is fast and…

The Return of Political Philosophy

Pierre Manent

It could be said that the twentieth century has witnessed the disappearance, or withering away, of political…

Leading Children Beyond Good and Evil

James Davison Hunter

Perhaps the enduring subtext in the evolution of moral education in America, and its continuing story to…

Opinion

The Constitution in the Cave

Steven D. Smith

There’s an old and famous story about a community of people who live in a cave. Fires…

Conservative Confusions

James Nuechterlein

John Stuart Mill famously labeled conservatism the stupid party. Whatever was the case then, that hardly holds…

Following the Lamb

Kenneth D. Whitehead

In its broad outlines, the story of the sixteen Carmelite nuns martyred at Compiègne during the French…

Home Alone in the Universe

Guillermo Gonzalez & Hugh Ross

Ptolemy (second century) was the first and boldest in a long succession of spin doctors for the…

Reviews

Briefly Noted 23

Various

Imperfect Conceptions:Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in Chinaby frank diköttercolumbia university press, 288 pages, $80 The…

Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind

Jeremy M. Beer

Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind by james e. person rowman & littlefield, 284…

The Social Construction of What?

Edward Pols

The Social Construction of What? by ian hacking harvard university press, 272 pages, $34.50 If you suppose…

Systematic Theology: Volumes I & II

Wolfhart Pannenberg

Systematic Theology: Volume 1: The Triune God by robert w. jenson oxford university press, 256 pages, $46.89…

The Cultural Revolution of Fascism

Brian C. Anderson

The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascism by george l. mosse howard fertig, 230 pages,…

The Justice in Just War

Keith Pavlischek

Morality and Contemporary Warfare by james turner johnson yale university press, 256 pages, $19 The average person…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 103 (May 2000): 29, 47. Desert Confirmation They say these people are…