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China – Guardian of Western Civ
David Goldman compares “transgressors” Milo Yiannopoulos and Yuja Wang. Milo’s transgressiveness is his essence; Wang, a thirty-year-old…
Upcoming Events—2.23.17
New York “Faith in the Future: Christian Life in a Turbulent Time” — An Evening with Archbishop…
Adamic Israel
1 Chronicles 27:25–31 lists the officials in charge of David’s stores and lands. Twelve men are named…
Typology, Toleration, and the Metaphysics of Hospitality
In an article on “Liturgy, Art and Politics,” Catherine Pickstock argues that the liturgy holds together universal…
Saint Peter’s Chair
The feast of the Chair of Saint Peter is very ancient in origin, arising from the second…
In Memoriam Michael Novak
Michael Novak died last week. He was the consummate First Things intellectual: conservative in the way the…
The Body of Evidence
Attending a lecture last week on the politics of gender, I turned to a friend and said,…
Zwingli, Matter, Mind
In her meticulous and revealing study of The Eucharist in the Reformation, Lee Palmer Wandel argues that…
Index Verborum Prohibitorum
First Things readers who hire recent graduates are probably well aware of the error these young workers…
Structure in 1 Chronicles 26
1 Chronicles 26:1-19 lists the names and positions of gatekeepers at Solomon’s temple. The passage is framed…
All Great Art Is Praise
“The art of man is the expression of his rational and disciplined delight in the forms and…
Demonstrative Complications
In their 1662 treatise on Logic, or the Art of Thinking, Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole question…
Still Waking Up
Like many others, I was grieved to learn of Michael Novak’s passing. Though I had never met…
What We’ve Been Reading—2.17.17
Mark Bauerlein: Reading the 1991 novel A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin (a contributor…
Love Among the Artifacts
There’s nothing like a good flyleaf inscription. Salutations from an ancient friend inside the cover of a…
