American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Primavera
It is Spring and the young Are all falling in love. It is Spring and the tongue…
Briefly Noted
The One Thomas More by Travis Curtright CUA, 231 pages, $64.95 Pius XII went from being a…
Cherished Children
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon Scribner, 976 pages,…
The Brilliantine Coattails of Lust
I remember walking home from grade school with my sister and brother on the day that my…
Homosexual Marriage, Homosexual Parenting, and Adoption: Unabridged
This essay unfortunately has a number of plagiarized passages that were only discovered after First Things had…
Letters
Roe’s Legacy While Jon Shields’ provocative piece (“Roe’s Pro-Life Legacy,” January) credits the Supreme Court decision with…
Briefly Noted
Nicholas of Cusa: A Companion to His Life and His Times by Morimichi Watanabe edited by Gerald…
Some Assembly Required
Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages by Ian Christopher…
Defending Marriage
What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P.…
Lilacs
Lilacs, pummeled in pounding rain, their sweetness sweeter for the pain, release redemptive suffering scent as they…
Catechism on the Road
A frosty sunlit Sunday morning. We, Still sleepy on our way to early Mass, Were snapped alert”sudden…
Unjust Secular Justice
The Machinery of Criminal Justice by stephanos bibas oxford, 320 pages, $75 There are two criminal justice…
Sex in the Meritocracy
When Yale first bowed to the spirit of meritocracy and began admitting large numbers of students from…
War Without End
Paul Miller’s essay is a plea for Americans to persevere in a military undertaking in Afghanistan that…
Reflections on the Revolution in Rome
As mediated by the journalists, the story of the Second Vatican Council was framed as a battle…
