Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What They Knew Without Seeing
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Or, to put it more contemporarily, what has Shakespeare’s formation…
Losing my Child at Easter
The closest my husband got to giving away he was going to propose was at the Easter…
Camille Paglia’s Teaching
Camille Paglia is an idiosyncratic mix of liberal and conservative convictions—or perhaps we should say that she,…
To My Daughter, Turning Ten
Beacon’s Riverfront Park looks different today, as if we’d been away for years, though it has only…
Abraham Lincoln, Matchmaker
What if Abraham Lincoln had sent a young socialite to meet an injured soldier, without telling her…
Ganging Up
As some readers of First Things may already know, Amy Wax, professor of law at the University…
Political CEOs
It was in a speech before the Society for American Newspaper Editors that President Calvin Coolidge uttered…
Fr. Manners
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I fell asleep at your book talk . . . …
Shunning the Disabled
Last October, our family realized that we were not welcome in the French Republic. I had always…
What Should Girls Watch?
A female correspondent read my post “What Should Boys Watch?” and wondered about the other half of…
Gratitude So Burdensome?
Anthony Kronman thinks that Christianity contains the seeds of its own undoing. A “born-again pagan” and former…
A Test for Classical Christian Students
“No more teaching to the test!” is the battle cry of the growing anti-testing movement in primary…
Teaching Submission After Trump
The University of Chicago does not support so-called trigger warnings. At least, that is what the dean…
Our Cultural Waterloo
Tradition ascribes to the Duke of Wellington the saying that the Battle of Waterloo was won on…
A Tragedy Either Way
On June 29, the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, George Cardinal Pell was charged with a…
