American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Bearable Lightness of Dignity
It’s hard to imagine a decent politics that doesn’t depend on the notion of the dignity of…
A Review of The Future of History
The Future of History by John Lukacs Yale University Press, 192 pages, $24 n Historian John Lukacs…
A Person You Flee At Parties
Forgive me for simply laying out a sequence of random thoughts (on a single theme) that occurred…
Inevitable Scholasticism
Introduction to Scholastic Theology by ulrich g. leinsle trans. michael j. miller catholic university of america, 392…
Revelation
I am soaking in Revelation, in the King James, just before dawn, The dog snoring in his…
Anniversary In-Sink-Erator
The stream beneath the site of our proposal at Vista Valley Country Club’s faux bridge has brought…
Holy Childhood
did you know summer hides even as she shines once, she whispered to the chinese tallows and…
Restoring the Village
In the year 1215, at a place called Runnymede, the barons of England, having paused from their…
Sects, Politics, and Religion
Good and Bad Ways to Think About Religion and Politics by Robert Benne Eerdmans, 120 pages, $14…
At the Ballet
A bold conception, said to be first-class, with varied styles of gesture, steps, and play, plus music,…
Thinking About Aging
As the number of our years increases, as we age in that simple chronological sense, we also…
Paradoxical Portraits
Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints by Robert Kiely Yale, 288 pages, $40 n What I discovered,”…
RJN and First Things
This issue marks the beginning of First Things ’ twenty-second year of publication, and every new publishing…
Letters
Conservative Liberalism or Liberal Conservatism? I am grateful to James Kalb for his thoughtful and respectful engagement…
Waiting for St. Vladimir
Alasdair MacIntyre, who is probably the greatest living philosopher, concludes his 1981 masterwork After Virtue by saying,…
