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JB: 5.1.06 The Ethics and Public…

Joseph Bottum

The Ethics and Public Policy Center sends along word that, on April 20, in the Royal Castle…

Hold the Granola

Gilbert Meilaender

Crunchy Cons by Rod Dreher. Crown Forum, 272 pages, $24. Making a long drive home from a…

RJN: 4.20.06 Roger Cardinal Mahony…

Richard John Neuhaus

Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles has been both garnering praise and taking a drubbing for his…

JB: 4.19.06 If you look over in the…

Joseph Bottum

If you look over in the left-hand column of this web page, you’ll find a link for…

RJN: 4.13.06 In Rome, the station church…

Richard John Neuhaus

In Rome, the station church today is St. John Lateran, the parish church of the Bishop of…

RJN: 4.12.06 Moving to less controversial topics…

Richard John Neuhaus

Moving to less controversial topics, George Will had a thoughtful column Sunday before last on new efforts…

To Be a Christian College

Alan Jacobs

In 1877 some concerned citizens of Wheaton, Illinois, decided that they needed to do something about the…

JB: 3.8.06 Euthanasia has been making…

Joseph Bottum

Euthanasia has been making a comeback in recent months, bubbling up again and again in little snippets…

RJN 2.8.06 There are many things

Richard John Neuhaus

There are many things that need to be said about the Muslim reaction to those cartoons in…

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Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. By Anne Rice. Knopf. 321 pp. $25.95. Appalling. That’s the word…

JB 1:30.06 For the last year…

Joseph Bottum

For the last year, the marvelous John Rose and Mary Angelita Ruiz have been our Junior Fellows…

RJN 1.13.05 The Roe decision…

Richard John Neuhaus

The Roe decision of 1973, wrote Yale’s legendary law professor, John Hart Ely, “is not constitutional law…

JB 1.07.06 Milton Himmelfarb…

Joseph Bottum

Milton Himmelfarb passed away this week in his eighty-eighth year. A contributor to F IRST T HINGS…

JB: 1.09.06 This weekend…

Joseph Bottum

This weekend, the Wall Street Journal ran an interesting story about Joshua Hochschild, an assistant professor of…

RJN 1.05.06 “The Christ-haunted…

Richard John Neuhaus

“The Christ-haunted South.” Flannery O’Connor’s phrase came to mind, said a friend, upon reading this report from…