Arts & Letters

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Academics Against Israel

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Gabriel Noah Brahm, founder of the…

Coercion and Conversion Therapy

Ephraim Radner

It was a great disappointment, if not exactly a surprise, to read a recent letter from British…

What We Affirm

R. R. Reno

I’m pleased to announce that the 2021 First Things annual report is now available. The following is…

Soli Deo Gloria

Robert P. Imbelli

Austrian-born conductor Manfred Honeck is the father of six and a devout Catholic. He attends Mass several…

The Game of Nonsense

John Wilson

Many of the most devoted baseball fans I know are also heavy readers; they take it for…

Metaxas: Atheism Is Dead

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Eric Metaxas joins the podcast…

Seminary Faithfulness

Jonathan L. Master

The last fifty years have been marked by institutional decline, both within the church and in society…

An Anglo-Latin Prayer From The Book of Nunnaminster

Mia Schilling Grogan

I. Nourishment O Vitality!true blush and bloomof those who’ve diedbut live nowin Heaven, to you, Aliment of…

Fruitful and Multiplied

Liel Leibovitz

Dizengoff Street, a tree-lined corridor of commerce and pleasure, is Tel Aviv’s main artery. Squint a little,…

National Unity in Ukraine

Jakub Grygiel

Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian offensive is a tragic reminder that a self-confident nation is the best…

The View from Vienna

Ari Berman

Two weeks ago, my two oldest sons and I walked past the balcony of the Hofberg Palace…

A Not-So-Secular Age

John Wilson

I recently received review copies of two books on the same day. The first, a galley of…

The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism

Wesley J. Smith

So-called “Christian transhumanism,” or the attempt to blend the transhumanist agenda with the precepts of Christian theology,…

Michael Nazir–Ali on Becoming Catholic

R. R. Reno

Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Fr. Michael Nazir–Ali to talk about his article from the…

Why We Walk

Timothy Jacobson

The New Testament tells us that Jesus walked. In Palestine in those days, walking was the only…