Public Life
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Battle for Young Minds
If you happened to tune in to America’s most popular podcasts these last few months, you might’ve…
Rebel Against the Cult of the Expert
For me, the end of the academic year is always bittersweet. The sweetness comes from seeing students…
New York Deserves Better than State-Sanctioned Suicide
Over the past two weeks, the world has witnessed a tremendous outpouring of love for Pope Francis,…
Public Schools and the Moral Neutrality Myth
On April 22, Kelly Armstrong, the Republican governor of North Dakota, vetoed a bill passed by the…
Feminism Against Fertility
When Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, the boys crowed and the girls cried. At least…
The Love Society and Its Enemies
Written by Karl Popper after he fled Austria in the late 1930s, The Open Society and Its…
We Are All Postliberals Now | Inaugural Neuhaus Lecture
In this episode, First Things brings you the recording of the Inaugural Neuhaus Lecture presented by Patrick J.…
How Catholic Institutions Are Responding to the Physician Deficit
Last year, the Association of American Medical Colleges warned that the United States will face a shortage…
Germany’s Confession of Nihilism
Every now and then I’m invited to an early-eighteenth-century castle in the German countryside, with high baroque…
Chuck Colson’s Last Word
Several months ago, I came into possession of an extraordinary book—a hardcover copy of To Change the…
Divine Elitism
I have often seethed at the pigheadedness of bureaucrats. Their roles in the ecclesial and academic worlds…
What’s Love Got to Do with Economics?
In Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, Ludwig von Mises explains how enlightened self-interest, rather than love,…
Hope Without God?
Hopeful Pessimism by mara van der lugt princeton university press, 280 pages, $24.95 Is it possible to be…
No Country for Christendom
The Armagnac was low in the bottle when my host erupted on the subject of American empire.…
Against the Politics of Grievance
Woke,” shorthand for what was once known as “political correctness,” helped fuel a grievance-based progressive politics that…
