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First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

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Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions' desire...
August 01, 2009

Down in the darkness.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
August 01, 2009

Fixing the liturgy.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
August 01, 2009

Intolerant tolerance.(Opinion)(antidiscrimination laws)(Essay)
August 01, 2009

On war and apocalypse.(Critical essay)
August 01, 2009

Hast thou considered my servant Faust?(Goethe's Faust)(Critical essay)
August 01, 2009

If All Is Relative.(Poem)
August 01, 2009

The beginning of wisdom.(And from These You Shall Seek)(Book review)
August 01, 2009

Dhimmitude deferred.(Reflections on the Revolution in Europe)(Book rev...
August 01, 2009

Shades of infallibility.(Papal Infallability: A Potestant Evaluation o...
August 01, 2009

How Balthasar Changed My Mind: Fifteen Scholars Reflect on the Meaning...
August 01, 2009

Just yesterday, walking through the park at Madison and 23rd, I passed...
August 01, 2009

Of course, the realists may underestimate the importance of the June r...
August 01, 2009

Internal Iranian data show a high degree of disaffection among young p...
August 01, 2009

Prior to the election, some Iranian commentators claimed that the so-c...
August 01, 2009

Iran's regime has been wounded by the events of June 2009.(While We're...
August 01, 2009

A United Church of Christ congregation explains on its website that it...
August 01, 2009

In 1967, Susan Chapulis, a sixth grader studying monasticism, wrote to...
August 01, 2009

Death in Naples.
August 01, 2009

What marriage is--and what it isn't.(Essay)
August 01, 2009

Morning's minion.(Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life)(Book review)
August 01, 2009

Helen Barrett Montgomery: The Global Mission of Domestic Feminism.(Bri...
August 01, 2009

During her recent diplomatic trip to Mexico, Secretary of State Hillar...
August 01, 2009

And how long has it been going on that the New York Times has gotten i...
August 01, 2009

Abortion is a holy blessing, says the new dean and president of the Ep...
August 01, 2009

Dr. Philip Nitschke, "England's Dr. Death," runs Exit International, a...
August 01, 2009

The future of First Things.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
August 01, 2009

Our loss of Cardinal Dulles.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
August 01, 2009

Her choice, her problem: how abortion empowers men.(Opinion)(Essay)
August 01, 2009

Empathy & apathy.(Opinion)(judicial selection)(Column)
August 01, 2009

Sisters & daughters.(Opinion)(Essay)
August 01, 2009

The Return of the Golden Age.(Poem)
August 01, 2009

The rule of law and the wealth of nations.(Essay)
August 01, 2009

Pedantic Park.(Worlds Made of Words: Scholarship and Community Life in...
August 01, 2009

The face of civilization.(Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution ...
August 01, 2009

Right Place, Right Time: Coming of Age With William F. Buckley Jr. and...
August 01, 2009

Fighting for the Cross: Crusading to the Holy Land.(Briefly Noted)(Boo...
August 01, 2009

The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years.(Briefly Note...
August 01, 2009

A room with a view.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion...
August 01, 2009

Instead of the birth of Iranian democracy, the crisis that followed th...
August 01, 2009

A sudden collapse in fertility produces a slow-motion train wreck in a...
August 01, 2009

Meanwhile, the United Methodist Hymnal committee is out roaming Mother...
August 01, 2009

President Obama did not go half far enough in lifting the ban against ...
August 01, 2009

Those who follow Oprah are often captivated by her resident medical ex...
August 01, 2009

And then the newly elected bishop of Stockholm, the Rev. Eva Brunne, s...
August 01, 2009

This does put Church of England Archbishop Rowan Williams in a pickle,...
August 01, 2009

Historian James Hitchcock has an insightful column comparing the forma...
August 01, 2009

Charles Taylor's A Secular Age is a work much reviewed, and it is inte...
August 01, 2009

The list seemed to contain exactly the right set of worries that norma...
August 01, 2009

Perhaps you noticed the NYU Child Study Center's questions target only...
August 01, 2009

FIRST THINGS has a tradition of looking at the annual updates for the ...
August 01, 2009

A month later the New York Times had a story on Mexican cartels recrui...
August 01, 2009

Jeffrey Tucker notes that watching Angels and Demons wasn't an altoget...
August 01, 2009

We've had bad experiences in modern times with the immanent eschatolog...
August 01, 2009

Azores.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 01, 2009

Called to Love: Approaching John Paul II's Theology of the Body.(Brief...
August 01, 2009

Remembering Richard John Neuhaus.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
August 01, 2009

The Cistercian monks of Our Lady of Spring Bank primarily support them...
August 01, 2009