American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Slavery, Christianity, and Islam
It has become a feature of today’s atheist chic to shy bricks at Christianity for its record…
Rethinking the Past
A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny Oxford University Press, 4 volumes in one, 1,456…
Briefly Noted 213
The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square by Joseph Viteritti Princeton University…
Paved with the Skulls of Bishops
That’s a grim metaphor, maybe too grim. It’s from an endorsement of Philip F. Lawler’s book, to…
The Legend of Saint Piran
They tied Saint Piran to a great millstone And flung that good man in the Irish Sea.…
Grade Incomplete
A couple of weeks ago I dreamed I lost my place. It started simply enough. I dreamed…
My Church, My Strip Mall
Read Richard Mouw’s “Spiritual Consumerism’s Upside,” recently made available online at Christianity Today ‘s website. In it…
Atheism and Violence
Books advocating atheism have recently been enjoying a modest boomlet. Sales are solid, book readings are sold…
The N.Y. Times vs. the Well-Endowed College
In the past few months, there have been a string of articles¯particularly in the New York Times…
Waking Up to Springtime
It’s a good day to be thinking about the Christian mission, this Day of the Conversion of…
From the Provinces
Poor Omaha. I’ve been noticing my adopted hometown cropping up more and more frequently as shorthand. Fargo…
On Being a Pallbearer
Recently, I served as a pallbearer for my grandfather on my mother’s side. I had never served…
John Cardinal O’Connor
Rocco Palmo over on Whispers in the Loggia reminds us that this week , January 15 to…
Apply to Be a Junior Fellow
So, if you look up higher on this page, you’ll see that First Things is beginning its…
Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It’s Wrong
On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter…
