Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Conversation with Maryann Corbett
On October 27 in New York City, First Things will host its fifth annual poetry reading, featuring…
Of Cigarettes and Grace
The dramatic action of grace is rooted in Christology: Christ descended into the world and passed through the…
The Dangers of Workism
Sen. Marco Rubio recently wrote that the purpose of economic policymaking is to ensure that people have…
The Bleak World of Téa Obreht
Eight years and half a planet separate Téa Obreht’s second novel from her first. The eight years…
Penguin Dysphoria
At a young age I knew more about Viking rune stones and fifteenth-century Venetian commerce than is…
Concerning Bullshit
Princeton University, as its graduates will gladly tell you, is the real treasure of the Ivy League.…
The Breath of God
What do a genocidal African ex-warlord, an ambitious and fecund Buddhist man with sixteen children, and a…
Heaven Is Above Me
Every year I am surprised by which books turn out to be (for me) among the most…
As “The League” Begins Its Centennial Season
By the Gargantuan standards of the 21st-century National Football League, Gino Marchetti, who died April 29, was…
A Theology of Meat
A reflection on this week’s Torah portion. Last week I was eating a hamburger, and a relative asked…
Wode Within the Wood
Midsummer Night’s Dream opens with a perfect storm of threats to the primary lovers, Hermia and Lysander.…
Sarah Ruden’s Mistakes
I fumed and fumed.” That’s Sarah Ruden at National Review responding to Mark Edmundson’s essay on Walt Whitman…
Cardinal Pell, Scapegoat
Earlier today in Australia, a three-judge panel refused to overturn Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on five counts…
Toni Morrison, Novelist of Forgiveness
The list of reasons to admire novelist Toni Morrison—who died two weeks ago, at age eighty-eight—is long.…
Big Addiction
According to my iPhone, I pick up my phone 177 times each day and spend 26 hours…
