American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
God’s Different Warriors
Angry protestors line the sidewalk of a San Francisco street. Behind barricades and a line of policemen,…
Saint Duncan of Wall Street
“What we need is a Saint Duncan of Wall Street.” I heard the phrase echo through the…
Why Do the Heathen Rage?
An extended dialogue between biologist Richard Dawkins and Christian apologist Alister McGrath¯originally shot for Dawkins’ BBC documentary…
Sartre, Legal Scholarship, and Those Troublesome Male Pronouns
I have mentioned before Clive James’ book of mini-essays on intellectuals of the last hundred years, Cultural…
Land of Lincoln: A Review
In the elementary schools of the American Midwest, Abraham Lincoln has always enjoyed a good press. Schoolchildren…
The False Choice Between Development and Daughters
Right now, in almost any corner of the world, a baby girl is being killed just because…
Mugabe and the Churches
Robert Mugabe, the dictator of Zimbabwe, claims to be a man of faith¯and with some reason. He…
A Criterion for Compromises
Our friends over at the New Criterion have put out a big anthology including the editors’ choice…
The Malling of Mecca
It’s big. No, I mean really BIG. And I’m not talking about the Burj Dubai , which…
The Seamless Garment Reconfigured
Hawks and social conservatives in the United States find themselves in a delicate coalition that will either…
Why Atheism Is Selling … Books
In his June/July First Things article, ” Remembering the Secular Age ,” along with emails he’s been…
How to Pray
As a Catholic growing up in the years before Vatican II, I knew very few Protestants, much…
The Politics of Global Warming
With the virtual apotheosis of Al Gore, talk of global warming has become pervasive—and pervasively one-sided. Churches…
Keeping the Humanist Faith, Sort Of
This is one strange book. Strange and frequently wonderful. Weighing in at 852 pages, nobody is going…
Mansfield on Atheism
Here at First Things , we’ve managed, more or less, to avoid talking about the new atheism…
