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A Higher Allegiance
I recently asked three good friends why they read First Things: First Things raises readers above the…
The Dictatorship of Woke Capital
This essay was originally delivered as a speech in the U. S. Senate on June 19, 2019.…
Our Challenge
The value of First Things is brought home to me every time I attend a conference or…
A New Consensus
Dear Readers, This is an exciting time. Some find it daunting, and understandably so. Political (and cultural)…
Summer Reading
Me: A couple of weeks ago, when the Summer Reading extravaganza of the New York Times Book…
Judaism’s Pro-Natalist Heritage
Tacitus, the great Roman historian of the first two centuries A.D., disdained the Jews’ conviction that it…
Catholic Universities and Gianni Vattimo
The Italian philosopher Gianteresio (Gianni) Vattimo has gained international renown over the last few decades. Many of…
About Drag Queen Story Hour
Sohrab Ahmari’s back-and-forth with David French began when Ahmari objected to a Sacramento public library hosting an…
Night Train to Europe
My train departed from Amsterdam and headed to Warsaw. Or at least, that was the destination of…
Post-Apocalyptic
Children, children, don’t get old. You’ll find yourself waking up in the middle of the night and…
Love in the Academic Ruins
The English Department is sick unto death. The signs are all there: an aging tenured professoriate; a…
Heroic Domesticity
The Book of Proverbs seems to be a collection of wisdom-bytes, organized in a desultory manner. This…
Marilynne Robinson and the Mystery of Grace
Jessica Hooten Wilson recently commented that because author Marilynne Robinson views all of created life as a…
Against Pro-Life Incrementalism
A crop of center-right commentators offered the pro-life movement some strategy tips last week. Responding to apparent…
An Open Letter to Georgetown Visitation
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, a Catholic girls’ school run by the Salesian Sisters of the Order of…
