Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
If You Sup With The Devil
If you sup with the devil, you’d better bring a long spoon.” In dealing with China, it’s…
The Catholic Future
The Next Pope:The Office of Peter and a Church in Missionby george weigel ignatius, 141 pages, $19.95…
Universal Horror
“Hollywood Movie Posters is the oldest memorabilia store in the world located in the same location with…
Should the Southern Baptist Convention Change Its Name?
J. D. Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), recently announced that his church, The Summit…
The Case For Amy Coney Barrett
Last week, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, died…
A Man for Strengthening Others
When the choirs of angels led Father Paul Mankowski, SJ, into the Father’s House on September 3,…
Bad Art Warps Our Vision
I haven’t listened to “WAP,” the obscene song with the unprintable full title that’s topping the summer…
Rediscovering Eucharistic Amazement
In his 2003 encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church from the Eucharist), Pope St. John Paul II…
How to Reform Higher Education
Congress is deadlocked over a $1 trillion coronavirus relief bill. As our representatives hash out their differences,…
The Real Damien of Molokai
Marisol Escobar’s statue of St. Damien of Molokai has graced the statuary hall in the U.S. Capitol…
By That Heart Known
The young man in his cell Receives his guestWho all his heart should tell And…
Brave New World Revisited
H. G. Wells was a tiresome socialist, but an interesting futurist. One of the best books I…
Free Speech Prevails at Princeton
This is a time of testing for our nation. We were already in the midst of dealing…
Liars Go to Hell
Writing in the Los Angeles Times three decades ago, the author S. J. Taylor claimed that “the…
Against Doomerism
Over the last month First Things has been blessed by an outpouring of support. Many readers have…
