September 2002
Stem Cells and False Hopes
We have all witnessed the transforming power of hope—the focus and sustenance hope provides when strength and…
A New Religious America
In recent years, the decade of the 1960s has become a popular subject for courses in university…
Dixie, U.S.A.
I went in search of Dixie, and discovered that I could find only traces of it. On…
Listening to Pacifists
In the First Things editorial “In a Time of War” (December 2001), the Editors argued that pacifists…
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power
Less than a year after the attack of September 11, Americans have just about succeeded in absorbing…
Briefly Noted 45
Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society . By David Sloan Wilson. University of Chicago…
Return to Reason
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
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
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
The ongoing debate about Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) and his actions (or lack of actions) in…
Poetry
When my fantasies, and these extreme regrets, shut my eyes in sleep, I discover, before me, the…