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Opinion

Market or Moral Failure?

Various

Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 103 (May 2000): 2-6. Market or Moral Failure? The seductive appeal of…

The Constitution in the Cave

Steven D. Smith

There’s an old and famous story about a community of people who live in a cave. Fires…

Conservative Confusions

James Nuechterlein

John Stuart Mill famously labeled conservatism the stupid party. Whatever was the case then, that hardly holds…

Following the Lamb

Kenneth D. Whitehead

In its broad outlines, the story of the sixteen Carmelite nuns martyred at Compiègne during the French…

Essays

By the Blood of His Cross

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square There is this odd thing that all the social science data agree that the…

Reviews

Briefly Noted 23

Various

Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China. By Frank Dikötter. Columbia University Press. 288…

Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind

Jeremy M. Beer

Russell Kirk’s place in twentieth“century intellectual life is difficult to ascertain. Though long“since canonized as one of…

The Social Construction of What?

Edward Pols

If you suppose that you know something towards which your attention is directed”another human being, your cat,…

Systematic Theology: Volumes I & II

Wolfhart Pannenberg

It is remarkable, at least to a foreign observer of the American theological scene, that a theologian…

The Cultural Revolution of Fascism

Brian C. Anderson

The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascismby george l. mossehoward fertig. 230 pp. $35. Everything…

The Justice in Just War

Keith Pavlischek

Morality and Contemporary Warfare by james turner johnson yale university press, 259 pages, $25 The average person…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 103 (May 2000): 29, 47. Desert Confirmation They say these people are…