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Opinion

Schools of Thought

R. R. Reno

It’s not easy to answer, the simple question of where to study theology. Interests, backgrounds, convictions, and…

What the Father Came to See

Paul Mariani

How old the story is, we have come to see, and yet how true. The kid’s back…

The Girl with the Franzen Tattoo

Ross Douthat

Freedom By Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 576 pages, $28 What if Jane Austen’s Bennet sisters…

Letters

Various

The Politics of Life My own take on abortion politics is somewhat different from Joseph Bottum’s (“The…

Essays

College Descriptions

The Editors

Mandatory Chapel

Joseph Bottum

Add up the music conservatories and the seminaries, the enormous land-grant universities and the tiny Bible colleges,…

Go With God

Stanley Hauerwas

The Christian religion,” wrote Robert Louis Wilken, “is inescapably ritualistic (one is received into the Church by…

Setting the Course

Dinesh D'Souza Ken Starr John H. Garvey

Dangerous Christians There are different ways to respond to a crisis. The first is to bellyache about…

College Rankings

The Editors

From Abilene Christian University in Texas to Zion Bible College in Massachusetts: For this survey, First Things…

Faith in America’s Colleges

Joseph Bottum

Wheaton College in Illinois is the single best place to go to college in America. Or Thomas…

Reviews

The Mysterious Stranger

David Bentley Hart

Autobiography of Mark Twain:The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith et al.…

Two Souls in One Breast

David P. Goldman

The German Genius by peter watson harpercollins, 964 pages, $35 What went wrong in Germany? How did…