American Politics
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Poetry
The Dead Are With Us The dead are with us when they sing. Though we can’t see…
Hylden: Choosing a College
It begins in earnest when the viewbooks start to come in the mail. Mounds of them, innumerable…
The Truth About Lies
Truth: A Guide by Simon Blackburn Oxford University Press, 272 pages, $25 SIMON BLACKBURN’S ABILITY to be…
Beauty Is as Beauty Does
On Beauty by zadie smith penguin, 464 pages, $15 (paperback) In On Beauty, British writer Zadie Smith has…
Public Morality, Public Reason
A contest of worldviews in our time pits devout Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other believers against secularist…
America in the European Mind
In recent years, there’s been no shortage of commentary on European anti-Americanism and the divide between Americans…
RJN: The Times and the Church
Those sixteen words have taken a terrible beating in the past fifty years. For most of our…
Rutler: Words and Reality
Lewis Carroll anticipated the word games that demagogues play when he had Humpty Dumpty say, “When I…
Oakes: Nihilism and Iraq
Midterm congressional elections in the United States are barely two weeks away, and all the polls I’ve…
Barr: Dawkins, Unfortunately
A small price that I have paid for the privilege of writing book reviews for First Things…
Anderson: Read This Ad
“So,” asked Father Neuhaus, “why don’t they take out an ad in First Things ?” I explained…
Rose: Jenkins, Regensburg, and Balthasar
It was standing-room-only on Monday night when Philip Jenkins delivered the annual Erasmus Lecture at the Union…
Rose: Abortion and Public Reason
Tucked away in the back of last week’s New York Review of Books , Michael Sandel and…
Anderson: The Family vs. the State
Last month, Britain’s Telegraph ran stories telling of two elderly sisters who brought the British government before…
Rose: Wilson, Dawkins & Co.
Christians look at creation and see the handiwork of the Lord. Nonreligious environmentalists marvel at what natural…
