Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
“Reminders” About Ukraine
Samuel Johnson, that great coiner of aphorisms, averred that “People need to be reminded more often than…
Read the Bible, Understand America
Many years ago, while I was in graduate school, a teacher leading a discussion of Walt Whitman’s…
Restoring Sexual Sanity
Ours is an age of sexual insanity. Men compete in women’s sports, male nurses share dressing rooms…
Is the Republican Party Becoming Pro-Choice?
The Republican National Committee proposed its 2024 GOP party platform in Milwaukee on July 8, and for…
A Pro-Life Woman for President
Terrisa Bukovinac will not be elected president in 2024. If you did not know that she was…
Educated Liberals Have a Biden Problem
Back in 2015, when Donald Trump’s candidacy started to look serious, my liberal friends and colleagues had…
Only One Name
Rome is chaotic at its calmest, but three weeks working there in May suggested that the chaos…
IVF and the Incarnation
In the wake of the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling on in vitro fertilization (IVF), much discussion…
Outlook and Character
In late 1989 or early 1990, in my home office north of Chicago, I received a provocative…
Vatican II and Dignitas Infinita
Even the casual reader of Dignitas Infinita (DI), the recent declaration by the Dicastery for the Doctrine…
A Trustworthy Publication
Last November I traveled to the mountains of Vermont to meet the only Carthusian monks in North…
More Than a Journal
In 1990, my husband and I were married by Richard John Neuhaus. Also in 1990, he founded…
Vexillology, Horsefeathers, and “Pro-Choice” Dishonesty
Just when you thought American public life couldn’t get more deranged, the Great Pine Tree Flag Indictment…
Introducing the First Things Poetry Prize
Perhaps you have heard: First Things has started a poetry prize. You can read about the submission…
Why Was Gen. Sheridan in New Orleans?
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Robert Cwiklik joins the…
