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The equilibrist: Irving Kristol and the politics of ma non troppo
LUNCH with Irving Kristol was an experience to remember. I had the pleasure only three times, always in the excellent dining room atop the American...
National Review, 10/19/09 by Wilfred M. McClay · More from publication -
Keeping time.(A Time to Keep Silence)(Book review)
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor New York Review Books, 112 pages, $12.95 paper One of the most memorable films of the...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 06/01/09 by McClay, Wilfred M. · More from publication -
LINCOLN THE GREAT
THOUGH HE DIDN'T LOOK THAT WAY AT THE TIME THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND THE ENIGMATIC MAN whose election in 1 860 precipitated it hold an...
Humanities, 01/01/09 by McClay, Wilfred M · More from publication -
What to give a First Things reader.(Opinion)(books as gifts)(Book review)
Seeking ideas for presents this year, we asked several of our well-read friends and contributors for recommendations of a few wise, or fun, or...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 12/01/08 by McClay, Wilfred M. · More from publication -
Uncomfortable unbelief.(A Secular Age)(Book review)
A SECULAR AGE by CHARLES TAYLOR Belknap, 896 pages, $39.95 Much about the new atheism that has emerged in the past few years seems...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 05/01/08 by McClay, Wilfred M. · More from publication -
Out of mortal threat, an opportunity: the present situation will force Americans to define themselves
THIS is one of those moments in our history when we are asking ourselves, with fresh intensity, who we are, as a nation and a people. We are not...
National Review, 05/14/07 by Wilfred M. McClay · More from publication -
The Founding of nations.
Did the United States really have a beginning that can be called its "Founding"? Can any society, for that matter, be said to have a founding...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 03/01/06 by McClay, Wilfred M. · More from publication -
The secret of the self.
Consider the obituary column in your local newspaper-not the obituary of anyone famous but just an ordinary obituary of an ordinary person from...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 12/01/05 by McClay, Wilfred M. · More from publication -
Treading out cliches.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
In his review of Michael Knox-Beran's Jefferson's Demons (March), Wilfred McClay takes the author to task for having mixed his metaphors when he...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 06/01/04 by McClay, Wilfred M.; Rodriguez, M. Miguel · More from publication -
The soul of a nation
IN the immediate wake of the September 11 attacks, Americans found themselves faced with an unexpected choice between radically different...
Public Interest, 03/22/04 by Wilfred M. McClay · More from publication
