Arts & Letters
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Art for the Glory of God
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Daniel McInerny joins in…
The Dark Side of Jane Austen
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. first things senior editor…
Writing Mothers
In April of this year, I wrote about Nadya Williams’s Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A…
Music in an Age of Decadence
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Mark Evans joins in…
Hannah and Her Resisters
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendts Lessons in Love and Disobedienceby lyndsey stonebridge hogarth, 368…
Gather Ye
Second Place — 2024 First Things Poetry Prize
Two Owls
First Place — 2024 First Things Poetry Prize
The Fall of the American College
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. David R. Barnhizer joins…
Winners of the Inaugural First Things Poetry Prize
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the inaugural First Things Poetry Prize is Josiah…
Hagar and Ishmael as Main Characters
A number of scholars say Genesis 16, the story of Hagar and Ishmael, is the center of…
God and the Rock Climber
I’m slotting a small metal chock behind a rock flake. I reach down to pull up the…
Education in a Pluralist Country
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Ashley Rogers Berner joins…
Arabic, A Christian Language
To whom does a language belong? One might think it the possession of all who speak it.…
Briefly Noted — 9/24
Viri Dignitatem: Personhood, Masculinity and Fatherhood in the Thought of John Paul IIby david h. delaneyemmaus academic,…
“Uncivilized” Catholic Ireland
Neil Jordan is Ireland’s greatest and most successful film director. His 1992 movie The Crying Game was…
