First Things RSS Feed - James Finn https://www.firstthings.com/author/james-finn en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:57:04 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/james-finn 60 Human Rights in Vienna https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/11/human-rights-in-vienna https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/11/human-rights-in-vienna Mon, 01 Nov 1993 00:00:00 -0500 One can learn from unfortunate experiences. This truism applies in spades to the World Conference on Human Rights sponsored by the UN and held in Vienna in late June. Unhappily, there is no corresponding truism that guarantees the learning experience will occur. One can only hope that in this case the United States government will prove an apt pupil.

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by kenneth murphy
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]]> A Contested Legacy https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/02/a-contested-legacy https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/02/a-contested-legacy Mon, 01 Feb 1993 00:00:00 -0500 John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation
edited by Robert P. Hunt and Kenneth L. Grasso
Eerdmans, 298 pages, $21.95 paper.

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]]> The Inscrutable Sinologists https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/04/the-inscrutable-sinologists https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/04/the-inscrutable-sinologists Mon, 01 Apr 1991 00:00:00 -0500 China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality
by steven w. mosher
basic books, 260 pages, $19.95

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]]> Graham Greene as Moralist https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/05/graham-greene-as-moralist https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/05/graham-greene-as-moralist Tue, 01 May 1990 00:00:00 -0400 Trust the tale and not the teller.
d. h. lawrence

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