[lbo-talk] Query

[C. G. Estabrook]

A thoroughly disgusting if well-financed journal of Neocon Catholicism,
with an ed board that includes a few fellow-travelers: while crying up
their allegiance to integralist Roman catholicism, they're not above
editing out inconvenient anti-capitalist remarks from the bishop of Rome
(as the priest-editor, Richard John Neuhaus, did in his edition of a
recent papal encyclical). They also managed to overlook the Vatican's take
on the Iraq war. Some of them, such as Mary Ann Glendon, aren't stupid,
but the character of the journal can be extrapolated from the work of the
best known of them, Michael Novak. Their views are clearly of the sort
that inspired the remark attributed to Jesus at Mark 8.33, directed to the
leader of his students...

It comforts me a bit to recall that ideas are not responsible for the
people who believe in them.  --CGE

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Carrol Cox wrote:


> Can anyone give me background on a journal called First Things? I note
> that it's editorial board includes Midge Dexter, but I don't recognize
> the other names. Its web site is at
> http://www.firstthings.com/menus/about.html.
> 
> Carrol
>