American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Silence of Saul Friedlander
In the world of Holocaust scholarship, Saul Friedlander is a major presence. A professor of history at…
Culture Matters
Having accepted Thomas Sowell’s great thesis that differences among peoples commonly attributed to race really reflect culture,…
Why Dictators Fear Artists
Although it has become a somewhat sappy and romanticized notion, the individual artist really does pose a…
Secularist Attacks on the Catholic Church in Britain
One might have expected the Catholic Church in Great Britain to enter a cosy relationship with the…
Romney’s Pornography Dilemma
The headline in the New York Times reads ” Romney Criticized for Hotel Pornography ,” which makes…
The Jewishness of the Roman Rite
Summorum Pontificum , the motu proprio whereby the pope grants a universal indult for the celebration of…
The Neo-Blanshardites vs. the Evangelicals
Recently, when the Supreme Court declined to strike down as unconstitutional a federal law prohibiting the killing…
Illegal Immigration and Our Corruption
With the failure of the immigration bill still causing murmurs across the nation, the topic of immigration,…
A Hatchet Job
We have come to rely on Alan Wolfe as just the sort of “expert” on religion who…
The Aug-Sept Issue of First Things Is Online!
Another day, another dollar. Well, actually, another month, another issue of First Things . And the cost…
Harold O.J. Brown (1933–2007)
Whether in foul weather or fair, a bicyclist would sometimes suddenly emerge from an opening in the…
The Pope’s Liturgical Liberalism
One of the more deft moves in Benedict’s apostolic letter motu proprio , titled ” Summorum Pontificum…
In Defense of Human Exceptionalism
Tearing humans off the pedestal of exceptionalism is all the rage today among academics, philosophers, and other…
Stop Reading This Now
What are you doing looking here on the Fourth of July? Go away. Set off some firecrackers.…
The Ten Commandments of … What?
I present to you a document of some forty pages entitled ” Guidelines for the Pastoral Care…
