Conservatism
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Apply to Be a Junior Fellow
So, if you look up higher on this page, you’ll see that First Things is beginning its…
American Catholics and Catholic Americans
The calibrations and ruminations of sociologists all too often dress up as expert “findings” what we already…
The Real First Citizen of Harlem
Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe are receiving the plaudits of critics for their bravura performances as Frank…
Death Threats and a Student Assaulted at Princeton
Last Wednesday, at Princeton University, vicious emails were sent to four students and a professor, threatening their…
The Bali Conference
The global warming/climate change noise machine has reached a crescendo this week with Al Gore’s trip to…
The December Issue Is Here!
The December issue of First Things has just appeared, the first of the Yuletide deliveries to arrive…
That Evangelical Crackup
All Souls Day, November 2, is for the ordinary folk. The “faithful departed” means all our brothers…
The November Issue of First Things Has Arrived
“Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran,” writes Alan Jacobs in the new issue…
Sex and Mysticism
Advice given to tourists in Scotland is equally applicable to contemporary academia: “If you don’t like the…
Education and Our Witness to Christ
G.K. Chesterton once described lunatics as people who have lost everything but their reason. What he meant…
Policemen of the World
In the October issue of First Things (which hits newsstands today), I draw attention to the powerfully…
A Right to Do Wrong? A Rejoinder to Miller
Robert Miller worries that one of the arguments in my post on Amnesty International is philosophically unsound…
Danger and Opportunity: A Plea to Catholics
We live in a time of both danger and opportunity for the Catholic Church in the United…
The Pope and the Pop Star
On Saturday, September 27, 1997, during the Twenty-third Eucharistic Congress and as part of pope John Paul…
Religion and the Common Good
Sooner or later, every teacher hears the same old joke about the philosophy student and his dad.…
