Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Watching The Golden Compass
The book version of The Golden Compass begins with a bang. The movie version with a lecture.…
Mitt Romney on Faith in America
It was a powerful speech powerfully delivered. I don’t do political endorsements but am on record as…
John Paul II and the Jews
More than any other pope, John Paul II was the twentieth century’s greatest papal friend and supporter…
The Curious Case of Free Exercise
On June 1, 1925, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Pierce v. Society of the Sisters…
Conscience and Authority
Nothing is more common in life than a seeming tension between the freedom of individuals and the…
Purpose: Biological, Biblical, or Both?
In one of his early books, Untimely Meditations , Friedrich Nietzsche spins a tale that, in paraphrase,…
An Alien Grace
Dr. Who , television’s longest-running science fiction show, has returned to planet Earth after battling near extinction.…
A Man for All Reasons?
Back in February, I received a phone call from the journalist Paul Elie. I knew his name…
The November Issue of First Things Has Arrived
“Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran,” writes Alan Jacobs in the new issue…
Anglican Confusion
No one can deny there is plenty of disagreement in the Anglican Communion, but right now straightforward…
Women and the Catholic Priesthood
In May 1994, Pope John Paul II issued his apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis. It is, as far…
Do You Want to Know a Secret?
Astounded as I was by the phenomenal bestselling success of Rhonda Byrnes’ The Secret ¯gobsmacked by the…
Mansfield on Atheism
Here at First Things , we’ve managed, more or less, to avoid talking about the new atheism…
How to Understand Politics
For some time we have taken political science for granted, as if it did not require some…
