American Politics

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The Friday Potpourri

Richard John Neuhaus

Rudy Giuliani and abortion? No big deal. As he told the folks in Iowa, we have to…

A Lutheran Pastor Says ‘Here I Stand’ in Delaware

First Things

In Delaware, the state legislature is debating embryonic stem cell research. A copy of some correspondence about…

Jerry Falwell, R.I.P.

Joseph Bottum

What shall we do for a bogeyman, now that our grand old monster is dead? Jerry Falwell…

An Idiot’s Guide to Evolution

Stephen H. Webb

The dirty Darwinian secret is now out of the closet: If evolution is true, then it must…

Stirring the Potpourri

Richard John Neuhaus

Of course, the literal meaning of potpourri is “rotten pot,” but it has come to refer to…

The Pope and the Pop Star

Sean Curnyn

On Saturday, September 27, 1997, during the Twenty-third Eucharistic Congress and as part of pope John Paul…

The Imperial Catholics

Michael Novak

More and more often on Catholic campuses, left-wing Catholics are hiding their own ideological preferences behind the…

Debates, Conferences, Controversy!

Ryan T. Anderson

For the past few weeks, Michael Novak¯a member of the First Things editorial board and a frequent…

Men for Some Seasons

James Kerian

In early April, Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, announced his intention to bring immigration legislation to…

Moses and Multiculturalism

R. R. Reno

Moses made a mistake. He could have been a broadminded model for our liberal culture, but he…

Ultrasound and Human Sacrifice, Cormac McCarthy, Mugabe and the Bishops

Richard John Neuhaus

Aside from his inability, or unwillingness, to recognize that the denial of legal protection to human beings…

Amnesty International’s Dirty Little Secret

Ryan T. Anderson

Amnesty International is up to no good, and they don’t want you to know about it. My…

America’s Greatest Mystery Writer

Joseph Bottum

G.K. Chesterton’s Fr. Brown stories are proof that only the British style of detective fiction can reach…

Robert Drinan, Infanticide, and the “Unthinkable”

Peter Sprigg

On February 1, I joined perhaps a thousand other mourners in St. Aloysius Church in Washington for…

Philip Rieff’s Charisma

R. R. Reno

I don’t think many would dispute that Philip Rieff was one of the most perceptive and creative…