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A selection of recent articles on this topic
God and Imaginary Numbers
Impossible, irrational, delusionary, absurd, untrustworthy, fictitious, imaginary: You can’t read much about religion today without encountering these…
Mother Teresa Remembered
The unfortunate publicity and distortions to the point of calumny that have surrounded the publication of the…
Policemen of the World
In the October issue of First Things (which hits newsstands today), I draw attention to the powerfully…
Land of Lincoln: A Review
In the elementary schools of the American Midwest, Abraham Lincoln has always enjoyed a good press. Schoolchildren…
The Malling of Mecca
It’s big. No, I mean really BIG. And I’m not talking about the Burj Dubai , which…
Danger and Opportunity: A Plea to Catholics
We live in a time of both danger and opportunity for the Catholic Church in the United…
Innocents Abroad
Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan Knopf, 527 pages, $30 “These Yankees are most disagreeable Fellows to have…
Culture Matters
Having accepted Thomas Sowell’s great thesis that differences among peoples commonly attributed to race really reflect culture,…
Why Dictators Fear Artists
Although it has become a somewhat sappy and romanticized notion, the individual artist really does pose a…
A Hatchet Job
We have come to rely on Alan Wolfe as just the sort of “expert” on religion who…
The Aug-Sept Issue of First Things Is Online!
Another day, another dollar. Well, actually, another month, another issue of First Things . And the cost…
The Relevance of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
“Obscure” hardly begins to describe the obscurity of the German-American thinker Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888¯1973). Though never a…
Orwellian Monitors
A pastoral colleague finds it “Orwellian.” He is describing the proposal before the church council of the…
Faithful Reason About Stem Cells
Two years ago, William Saletan¯Slate.com’s science reporter¯compared the typical approaches of Jewish and Catholic thinkers to bioethical…
Update on Stem-Cell Research
It made the front page of the New York Times , but don’t let that dissuade you¯reports…
