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Apply to Be a Junior Fellow
So, if you look up higher on this page, you’ll see that First Things is beginning its…
Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It’s Wrong
On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter…
Better Citizens, More Faithful Catholics
When we speak about a nation’s culture, we mean the entire fabric of its common life, from…
Sarkozy and Secularism
A few years ago, I was in the middle of giving a lecture in Paris about religious…
Are Protestants Heretics?
My lucubrations for today’s webposting would like to argue just this one single point: Doctrinal clarity is…
The Real First Citizen of Harlem
Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe are receiving the plaudits of critics for their bravura performances as Frank…
Death Threats and a Student Assaulted at Princeton
Last Wednesday, at Princeton University, vicious emails were sent to four students and a professor, threatening their…
Francisco Nava Confesses
Reports are coming in that Francisco Nava has confessed to Princeton Township Police. Apparently he was behind…
Lost in Translation
“Translations are like lovers: There are those that are beautiful but untrue¯and those that are true but…
The Bali Conference
The global warming/climate change noise machine has reached a crescendo this week with Al Gore’s trip to…
God in the Gallery
Numerous illustrations—absorbing, beautiful ones—of both the Vulgate Bible and the Divine Comedy by the Surrealist painter Salvador…
The Pope Writes to Chinese Catholics; Stanley Fish’s Take on Richard Dawkins & Co.¯with Unhappy Consequences for Reason
Pope Benedict’s letter this past week to the Catholics of China is a development of potentially historic…
Keeping Marriage Public
Prof. Stephanie Coontz recently took to the pages of the New York Times to inform us that…
On Christian Hope
Pope Benedict XVI released his new encyclical letter, Spe Salvi (Saved by Hope), November 30, just two…
John Paul II and the Jews
More than any other pope, John Paul II was the twentieth century’s greatest papal friend and supporter…
