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Opinion

Onward Catholic Soldiers?

Various

Stem Cells and False Hopes

Maureen L. Condic

We have all witnessed the transforming power of hope—the focus and sustenance hope provides when strength and…

A New Religious America

Philip Jenkins

In recent years, the decade of the 1960s has become a popular subject for courses in university…

Dixie, U.S.A.

James Nuechterlein

I went in search of Dixie, and discovered that I could find only traces of it. On…

Listening to Pacifists

Darrell Cole

In the First Things editorial “In a Time of War” (December 2001), the Editors argued that pacifists…

Reviews

The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power

Andrew J. Bacevich

Less than a year after the attack of September 11, Americans have just about succeeded in absorbing…

Briefly Noted 45

Various

Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society . By David Sloan Wilson. University of Chicago…

Return to Reason

Peter Berkowitz

Stephen Toulmin’s Return to Reason provides an occasion to reflect on the remarkable fact that our faith…

Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries

Wolfhart Pannenberg

While his professional work is primarily in elementary particle physics, Steven Weinberg became widely known to the…

The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration

Scott McConnell

The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration—a somewhat mistitled, often uneven, but extremely provocative…

Pius XII and the Holocaust: Understanding the Controversy and Popes and Politics: Reform, Resentment, and the Holocaust

David G. Dalin

The ongoing debate about Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) and his actions (or lack of actions) in…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

When my fantasies, and these extreme regrets, shut my eyes in sleep, I discover, before me, the…