American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Peddler of Paradise
Recently I witnessed a spectacle unlike anything I have seen in twenty years: a mass wedding celebrated…
A Grammar of the Self
You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves whether they…
What Else to Expect When You’re Expecting
Last Christmas our parish hall displayed a Nativity painting by a local artist, showing a dark-haired woman…
The Disconsolate Philosopher
the making of a philosopher by colin mcginn harpercollins, 241 pp., $25.95 Philosophy is made for man, not…
Thirty Years of Empty Promises
In the long and arduous fight leading up to Roe v. Wade, the one thing feminists were…
Constitutional Persons: An Exchange on Abortion
Readers of First Things should by now be well-acquainted with the heated national debate—in part inspired by…
The Perils of Partisan History
Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth by Stephen F. Knott University Press of Kansas, 336 pages,…
Moral Clarity in a Time of War
In Book Three of Tolstoy’s epic, War and Peace, the hero, Pierre Bezukhov, arrives at the battlefield…
January Letters 49
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Pacifism Redux
We, the undersigned, are grateful to Darrell Cole for “Listening to Pacifists” (August/September). He writes with charity,…
A Musical Requiem
Timing is everything. To complete his three-year tenure as composer-in-residence with the Pacific Symphony (an ensemble in…
Orestes Brownson and the Truth About America
If you attend Mass in the crypt of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University…
To Beginning Law Students
Regardless of what each of you has come to law school to do, allow me to suggest…
Ivan Karamazov’s Mistake
It is has become commonplace to regard Ivan Karamazov’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” as a prescient…
Halfway Through the Hail Mary
A Methodist friend of mine has always been puzzled by the emphasis Catholics place upon ready-made prayers.…
