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Articles in April 2008 issue of First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

• Scorn for porn.(Letter to the editor)
  by Byassee, Jason; Eron, David; Kim, Courtney Guest; LeJeune, Marcel; Warner, Frederick
• Freud famously, or infamously, ruled his household and his collaborators with an iron fist.(While We're At It)(Sigmund Freud)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• One imagines French executives sitting around the boardroom table and brainstorming how to break in big-time to the American market.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Myth and Thought Among the Greeks.(Briefly Noted)(Book review)
  by Pearce, Joseph
• Here he goes again.(While We're At It)(Ronald Sider's latest book The Scandal of Evangelical Politics: Why Are Christians Missing the Chance to Really Change the World?)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• In 2005, Lenn E. Goodman, professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt, was invited to give the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow.(While We're At It)( Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Christian Faith and Same-Sex Attraction: Eastern Orthodox Reflections.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• Jesus' friends respond.(Letter to the editor)
  by Biezad, Daniel J.; Glazer, Daniel Love; Hunt, Dena; Neusner, Jacob; Oakes, Edward T.
• Glenn Tinder, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts, is an undervalued treasure.(While We're At It)(Liberty: Rethinking an Imperiled Ideal)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• The Magdalenes.(Poem)
  by Warren, Deborah
• Biomedical Research and Beyond: Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry.(Briefly Noted)(Book review)
  by Anderson, Ryan T.
• One is forced, again and again, to return to the depressing subject of the sex-abuse crisis.(While We're At It)(The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• It is hard for us to appreciate, writes George McKenna in his fine new book, The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism (Yale), just how alien Catholicism appeared to most Americans from the seventeenth through the early twentieth century.(While We're At
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Christian-Jewish Dialogue: Exploring Our Commonalities and Our Differences.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Murphy, Francis
• Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican from Iowa, is venturing onto very thin constitutional ice.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• The English language is so very rich, and not least when it comes to language about language.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• The sixties, again and again.(American political history)
  by Weigel, George
• I am hardly a disinterested party when it comes to commenting on the work of George Weigel.(While We're At It)(Against the Grain: Christianity and Democracy, War and Peace)(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Now here is an apparent conundrum, and maybe more than apparent.(While We're At It)(John Paul II and the Jewish People)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Reasonable Ethics: A Christian Approach to Social, Economic, and Political Concerns.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• It is an unpleasant subject, but it is not unimportant.(While We're At It)(state of Turkey's patriarchate)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Our stillborn renaissance.(American literature)(Biography)
  by McDougall, Walter A.
• Do You Believe? is a collection of interviews by Antonio Monda that has now been translated from the Italian and published by Vintage.(While We're At It)(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Here's a wonderful little book.(While We're At It)(Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? 23 Questions from Great Philosophers)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• There is a second approach to the problem, and Marshall describes it this way: "linking the old covenant to the new as 'figure' to 'reality' or 'shadow' to 'truth' is ... a way of insisting that the Church and her faith do have an inherent connection
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Strangers and Neighbors.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• A reader has very helpfully supplied a complete listing of the dates of Easter from the year 326 through 4099.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Five Germanys I Have Known.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• The Bible inside and out.(OPINION)
  by Reno, R.R.
• Some fifteen years ago, Eamon Duffy of Cambridge published The Stripping of the Altars, and the historical understanding of the Church in England has not been the same since.(While We're At It)(Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-132
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• The Resurrection of the Body.(Poem)
  by Lake, Paul
• It is the sadness of this failure that comes through most poignantly in Mark Edmundson's recent book, The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days.(While We're At It)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Former president Jimmy Carter's "Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant" was launched in Atlanta, with thousands of folks showing up, including the leaders of the four major black Baptist conventions and former president Bill Clinton, along with
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Saints Behaving Badly.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• The Freedom of a Christian: Grace, Vocation, and the Meaning of Our Humanity.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• The comedian Bill Maher recently delivered himself of some rather decided views on religion in general and Catholicism in particular.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Here's a new thing under the sun. American Theological Inquiry is a big thick journal of "theology, culture, and history" available online at www.atijournal.org.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Flipside.(Poem)
  by Kelleher, Rose
• Here's a forceful editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Congress Monthly, the magazine of the American Jewish Congress, selects Richard V. Pierard to review a book that smites hip and thigh this magazine and all its works and all its ways (never mind its pomps).(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Sacred Scripture: The Disclosure of the Word.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• The moral law.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
  by Bennett, Robert; George, Robert P.; Owens, Vincent; Puharic, Robert
• The hold that Freud and Freudianism(s) have on the minds of many intellectuals is a cause of continuing wonder.(While We're At It)(Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis)(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• A friend tells of his grandfather who was born in Brooklyn, New York, and as a young man moved to a small town in South Carolina, where he reared a large family and was a leading member of the community for more than sixty years.(While We're At It)(divers
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Class and the Classroom.(Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites)(Book review)
  by Hylden, Jordan
• The Penitents' Treasury: Indulgences in Latin.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Peters, Nathaniel
• Not surprisingly, Putnam's findings have met with a mixed response.(While We're At It)(Robert Putnam)(Critical essay)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Much attention was rightly paid when a small minority of faculty and students at Rome's La Sapienza University promised a confrontation and the pope decided against giving the lecture he had been invited to deliver.(While We're At It)(Critical essay)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• The Future of the United Nations.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• The possibilities and perils in being a really smart bishop.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Smelly olde England.(OPINION)
  by Thomas, Sally
• AIDS and the churches: getting the story right.
  by Green, Edward C.; Ruark, Allison Herling
• Manifesting destiny.(What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848)(Book review)
  by McKenna, George
• Cities of God.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• "We are all evangelicals now.".(While We're At It)(Sex in Crisis)(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• Digging through Nietzsche.(Letter to the editor)
  by Kainz, Howard P.; Reno, R.R.; Sokolowski, William R.
• Freud made a point of not reading philosophers and other seminal thinkers, says Edmundson, lest he discover that his own ideas were not so original as he wanted to believe them to be.(While We're At It)(Mark Edmundson's opinion on Sigmund Freud)(Brief art
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• That exemplary sociologist of religion, David Martin, is mainly puzzled by John Gray's new book, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia.(While We're At It)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Poetics and power.(A Treatise of Civil Power)(Book review)
  by Hart, Kevin
• The Regensburg Lecture.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• The Rule of Benedict.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• It is a question that has been addressed frequently here, but it is good to see the distinguished sociologist James Q. Wilson take it up in City Journal, the publication of the Manhattan Institute.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Wittgenstein found Freud both alluring and misleading and credited him with having produced "a very powerful mythology.".(While We're At It)(Ludwig Wittgenstein)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Thinking in tongues.
  by Smith, James K.A.
• A mirror darkly.(Arts of Darkness: American Noir and the Quest for Redemption)(Book review)
  by Sacramone, Anthony
• Now.(Poem)
  by Menashe, Samuel