Life of Faith

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RJN: Neocons v. Theocons: The Sequel

Richard John Neuhaus

Evangelicals have never forgotten, and for good reason they have never forgotten, that Washington Post story of…

Murder in the Vicarage

Ralph C. Wood

The Lighthouse by P.D. James Knopf, 352 pages, $25.95. IN HIS CELEBRATED 1948 essay on detective fiction,…

Hylden: Choosing a College

Jordan Hylden

It begins in earnest when the viewbooks start to come in the mail. Mounds of them, innumerable…

RJN: The Times and the Church

Richard John Neuhaus

Those sixteen words have taken a terrible beating in the past fifty years. For most of our…

Oakes: Nihilism and Iraq

Edward T. Oakes

Midterm congressional elections in the United States are barely two weeks away, and all the polls I’ve…

Barr: Dawkins, Unfortunately

Stephen M. Barr

A small price that I have paid for the privilege of writing book reviews for First Things…

Rose: Jenkins, Regensburg, and Balthasar

John Rose

It was standing-room-only on Monday night when Philip Jenkins delivered the annual Erasmus Lecture at the Union…

Rose: Abortion and Public Reason

John Rose

Tucked away in the back of last week’s New York Review of Books , Michael Sandel and…

Anderson: The Family vs. the State

Ryan T. Anderson

Last month, Britain’s Telegraph ran stories telling of two elderly sisters who brought the British government before…

Rose: Wilson, Dawkins & Co.

John Rose

Christians look at creation and see the handiwork of the Lord. Nonreligious environmentalists marvel at what natural…

Judge William Pryor and Lee Silver

Richard John Neuhaus

Judge William H. Pryor is on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. I count him…

Bonus article available

Joseph Bottum

As a special bonus for Columbus Day weekend, we’re making available here on our website a second…

Rose: String Theory and All That

John Rose

Depending on whom you ask, it’s either the holy grail of physics¯the prophesied Theory of Everything¯or a…

George: No Tired Meme

Robert P. George

Over at the Mirror of Justice website, law professor Eduardo Peñalver keeps reasserting his arguments for why…

Miller: Transgressive Art Pacified

Robert T. Miller

Characteristic of postmodernist art is transgression, the idea that the artist ought to produce works that violate…