May 2000
Market or Moral Failure?
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 103 (May 2000): 2-6. Market or Moral Failure? The seductive appeal of…
The Constitution in the Cave
There’s an old and famous story about a community of people who live in a cave. Fires…
Conservative Confusions
John Stuart Mill famously labeled conservatism the stupid party. Whatever was the case then, that hardly holds…
Following the Lamb
In its broad outlines, the story of the sixteen Carmelite nuns martyred at Compiègne during the French…
By the Blood of His Cross
The Public Square There is this odd thing that all the social science data agree that the…
Briefly Noted 23
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
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?
If you suppose that you know something towards which your attention is directed”another human being, your cat,…
Systematic Theology: Volumes I & II
It is remarkable, at least to a foreign observer of the American theological scene, that a theologian…
The Cultural Revolution of Fascism
The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascismby george l. mossehoward fertig. 230 pp. $35. Everything…
The Justice in Just War
Morality and Contemporary Warfare by james turner johnson yale university press, 259 pages, $25 The average person…
Poetry
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 103 (May 2000): 29, 47. Desert Confirmation They say these people are…