American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Constitution in the Cave
There’s an old and famous story about a community of people who live in a cave. Fires…
Following the Lamb
In its broad outlines, the story of the sixteen Carmelite nuns martyred at Compiègne during the French…
Briefly Noted 23
Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China. By Frank Dikötter. Columbia University Press. 288…
My History and America’s
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), in partnership with the White House Millennium Council, announced in…
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties
John Witte’s book on religious freedom is a work of impressive erudition and formidable complacency. Witte capably…
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus
This is the third volume in a projected seven“volume series entitled The Hinges of History, in which…
A Confessional State?
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 101 (March 2000): 2-9. A Confessional State? In ” Proposing Democracy Anew”Part…
Poetry
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 101 (March 2000): 15, 26, 38, 63, 68. Annas (to Caiaphas) This…
Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
Lonnie Athens, a little-known criminologist at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, has written two books about…
The Essential Chesterton
It would no doubt be foolish to suggest that there is a single, essential contribution which Gilbert…
Rethinking the Crusades
On July 15, 1999, the nine-hundredth anniversary of the fall of Jerusalem to the crusaders, a party…
In the Beginning
Anniversaries are occasions for nostalgic celebration, for recalling to oneself and others how it is that this…
The First Ten Years – Putting First Things First
Upon rereading the following editorial, which may be viewed as a statement of purpose and hope, there…
Born Toward Dying
We are born to die. Not that death is the purpose of our being born, but we…
The Church and the City
Since the official validation of Christianity in the fourth century, ecclesiastical leaders have built places of worship…
