Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
No Turning Back
Pierce the Eye of the Needle no caravan can pass. Ride without a saddle a colt, the…
The Florentine Enigma
During the summer of 1502, the young Republic of Florence appeared fated to die as quickly as…
The False Choice Between Development and Daughters
Right now, in almost any corner of the world, a baby girl is being killed just because…
Why Atheism Is Selling … Books
In his June/July First Things article, ” Remembering the Secular Age ,” along with emails he’s been…
Mansfield on Atheism
Here at First Things , we’ve managed, more or less, to avoid talking about the new atheism…
A Right to Do Wrong? A Rejoinder to Miller
Robert Miller worries that one of the arguments in my post on Amnesty International is philosophically unsound…
Why Dictators Fear Artists
Although it has become a somewhat sappy and romanticized notion, the individual artist really does pose a…
The First Openly Muslim Priest
The day before the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops voted to confirm the church’s first openly gay…
The Jewishness of the Roman Rite
Summorum Pontificum , the motu proprio whereby the pope grants a universal indult for the celebration of…
Rejoinder to Miller’s Response
Robert T. Miller is one of my favorite First Things contributors. So it is indeed an honor…
Supreme Confusion
Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History by Joseph W. Dellapenna Carolina Academic Press, 1,300 pages, $95 History…
America and Its Dead
You can see them at many grave sites where the War of Independence was fought, and the…
Cornflowers
I give you for consideration the reason why cornflowers defy the certainty of asphalt. Impediments to progress…
Disoriented
Tracking a decline, I strayed from the trail traced by my ancestral line. I found the land’s…
Philip Rieff’s Charisma
I don’t think many would dispute that Philip Rieff was one of the most perceptive and creative…
