Foreign Affairs
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Papacy and Power
Pope John Paul II’s considerable effect on our times is conceded by admirers and critics alike. The…
Whose Left?
There’s this friend of mine who’s a liberal. For years now, he’s been trying to persuade me…
Development as Freedom
Development as Freedom is a brilliant book by the world“famous economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, longtime…
Sing Unto the Lord
Jon Vickers:A Hero’s Lifeby jeannie williamsnortheastern university press, 432 pages, $29.95 In opera, it’s good to be…
Briefly Noted 25
All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal Seven Stories, 303 pp., $29.95 In one of those moments that…
Saving Chicago
When I heard that the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) planned to send 100,000 volunteers to Chicago next…
The Middle East Without Tears
Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age.By R. Stephen Humphreys.University of California Press.…
The Holy Feminine
Catherine of Siena by giuliana cavallini, o.p. cassell academic, 163 pages, $60 cloth, $21.50 The Flowing Light…
Human Dignity, Human Rights
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 97 (November 1999): 39-42. Fifty years ago, a tangle of intellectual and…
The Condescension of the Christian West
The NATO-led war against Yugoslavia has had repercussions far beyond the bloody killing fields and battlefields of…
Quebec After Catholicism
In July 1997 Quebec City unveiled a bronze statue of Charles de Gaulle outside its walls. Though…
The World According to Clinton
As part of its professed commitment to “complete the unfinished business of the Second World War,” the…
Letter from Budapest
Murderous cruise missiles crash into factories, office buildings, farm houses, all just across the border in Serbia,…
Old Ghosts
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America.By John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr.Yale University Press. 475 pp. $30.…
Letter from Moscow
Visitors from the West are often surprised to learn how many historic Catholic churches are scattered about…
