American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Hast Thou Considered My Servant Faust?
Critics often use the Bible to help explain literature, but, on rarer occasion, literature may help us…
Her Choice, Her Problem
This summer, President Obama proclaimed again that we “need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn’t end at…
Intolerant Tolerance
Some secularists seem to like one-way streets. Their distaste for Christianity leads them to seek to drive…
Morning’s Minion
Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life by Paul Mariani Viking, 496 pages, $34.95 Too often, Gerard Manley Hopkins…
Sisters & Daughters
It started back in May 2001, at a graduation party in my daughter’s tiny New York apartment,…
The Social Gospel of Charles Dickens
“I hold my imaginative capacity,” Charles Dickens once wrote, “on the stern condition that it must master…
Pro-Animal, Pro-Life
Why aren’t vegetarians and pro-lifers more closely aligned? After all, the best writing about ethical vegetarianism—the moral…
Inventing the Crusades
The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam by jonathan riley-smith columbia university press, 136 pages, $24.50 Within a month of…
Collected Letters
The Church’s Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus by Brevard S. Childs…
Atheists and Christians Together
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? by Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank MIT?Press, 416 pages, $27.95…
Briefly Noted 230
Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy by Roger Collins Basic Books, 566…
For a Young Dancer on St. Patrick’s Day
At six, her stance is Like a professional’s—she waits her cue Intensely and with no expression, The…
For Kashmir
Sooner or later in the night, He’d spring onto the bed, Advance along my flank, and curl…
“I Did Not Come to Call the Righteous”
Matthew 9:9“13 We ninety-nine obedient sheep; we workers hired at dawn’s first peep; we faithful sons who…
Confessions of a Coward
Early in April, with the publication of the May issue of First Things, I stepped out from…
