Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Friendship After COVID
I long to offer maskless casual greetings to colleagues, to clerks in my regular shopping ambit, and…
Learning from the O Antiphons
St. Anne came to my wife in a dream once. The grandmother of Jesus gently touched my…
The Gospel and the Natural Law
In the Baptist church of my childhood, we often sang the hymn “He Paid a Debt He…
Homeless in Advent
Nothing is as debilitating as homelessness. Home is where the heart is. To not have a home…
Ron Howard’s Disappointing Hillbilly Elegy
Discussions of J. D. Vance’s 2016 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis…
The Battered Priesthood
I was astonished to read recently that the archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond, is seeking to…
What We’ve Been Reading—September 2020
Mark Bauerlein nContributing Editor E. D. Hirsch’s How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge…
America’s Point of No Return
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Michael Anton joins the podcast…
The Arrow of Time
If you are interested in “time” and how people think about it, write about it, talk about…
The Next Pope and the Crisis of the West
In February 1968, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła wrote Father Henri de Lubac, S.J., about a project in which…
Onward!
The First Things mid-year campaign was a great success. Thanks to the generous support of hundreds of…
The Deadly “Quality of Life” Ethic
Something evil happened recently in Austin. Michael Hickson, a forty-six-year-old African-American man with quadriplegia and a serious…
Of Statues and Symbolic Murder
In our culture, we have gotten so used to the idea that “iconoclasm” is a good and…
An Encounter With My Past
Most of my memory of my teenage years is firmly locked and sealed. Sometimes a long-forgotten smell,…
A Protestant Appreciation of Pope John Paul II
During the Christmas season of 1999, while living in Russia, I read George Weigel’s extraordinary biography of…
