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Suburban Coercion
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Literary editor Matthew Schmitz and associate editor Julia Yost…
Power in Weakness
In an essay on Alexander Schmemann (in Ordering Love, 301-2), David L. Schindler observes that “Creaturely power…
Poetry After Mimesis
Earl R. Wasserman (Subtler Language) observes that “Until the end of the eighteenth century there was sufficient…
Humor Games
“Laughter,” writes Indira Ghose, “stakes out an area of discourse as a game which follows its own…
War Against the Machine
During the 15th century, Boxley Abbey in Kent boasted a crucifix with a movable Jesus. It was…
Pew Wars
Margo Todd’s The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland is an extraordinarily rich study. One brief…
Blue State Secession
It’s time for “Bluexit,” argues Kevin Baker at The New Republic, a blue-state secession. Here’s the thesis:…
Stating the Obvious
Mona Charen states the obvious: “There are good and bad arguments against immigration.” In today’s overheated political…
The Evolving American Constitution: Change Without Amendment
Might the United States be headed for significant constitutional change without formal amendment of the document we…
Confessionalization
Joel Harrington and Helmut Walser Smith summarize the interests of research into confessionalization under three headings: “Research…
Winged Cherubim
The Chronicler’s description of the free-standing cherubim in the temple’s Most Holy Place (2 Chronicles 3:10–13) is…
Turks, Cannibals, Catholics
Imagine that you have just been given a new technology that allows you to respond almost instantaneously…
More Anti-Catholic Than Thou
The “second Reformation” introduced Reformed liturgy and teaching into Lutheran Germany. This was seen by some as…
Criminal Justice Reform
The late William J. Stuntz spent his life studying the American criminal justice system. In a 2001…
Shattered World
In her “new history” of The Reformation, Lee Palmer Wandel offers a stark, sobering summary of the…
