Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
National Breakup?
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, F. H.…
Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 25
Wednesday. Coffee in bed as I read the morning paper. Reports: Local leaders in counties north of…
Europe’s Duty to Kill
Can you spare a minute for a story that doesn’t involve the coronavirus? Here’s hoping. I first…
Doubling Down On a Bad Deal
Perseverance on a difficult but noble path is a virtue. Stubbornness when confronted by irrefutable evidence of…
Darshan-abhilashi
How often when we are lostor in pain, we cry out to God— even if we don’t…
Mirror Work
The peak that paints the lakeIs quick to break. A height becomes a depth,A life a death.…
Back to the Future
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Successby ross douthatavid, 272 pages, $27…
A Gay Couple in the White House
Barring the unforeseen, Pete Buttigieg will not be the Democratic nominee. Though he will not win the…
Why Go To College?
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Johann Neem…
Yale Loses an Inspiration
Seaside, Florida, is one of the exemplary achievements of New Urbanism, the school of architecture that favors…
2019: Our Year in Books
We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable books they read…
Please Write This Novel
It may be presumptuous to suggest premises for novels (“Oh, somebody should write X,” which seems to…
Books for Christmas—2019
Resist the twitterization of thought—give books for Christmas! The following titles will delight, instruct, edify (or all…
Christmas Guide to Buying a Bible: 2019 Edition
In 2012, First Things asked me to suggest Bibles to give as gifts during the Christmas season.…
A Year of Reading: 2019
I’ve been doing this annual list for twenty years, and it has taken on a ritual quality.…
