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Nationalism and the Elections of 2016
What explains the political upheavals of 2016—in Britain, the United States, France, and even Italy? Some might…
Progressive Homogenization
In his end-of-the-book essay in the latest issue of the Claremont Review of Books, Mark Helprin neatly…
The Past is a Foreign Country
There is a line from one of the choruses in Sophocles’s Antigone that first struck me some…
De Deo Uno et Trino
D. Stephen Long (The Perfectly Simple Triune God) claims that the doctrine of divine simplicity is designed…
Two Kinds of Liberalism
Mark Garnett (The Snake that Swallowed Its Tail) identifies four core beliefs of liberalism: “that the individual…
Fugitive Commitments
Search Party, a new dark comedy airing on TBS, turns a sly eye on a scene everyone…
Dating Daniel
In a contribution to Apocalypses in Context, Christopher Hays recounts the rise of apocalyptic writing during the…
Post-Castro, Post-Truth
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Editor Rusty Reno talks with associate editor Julia Yost…
Jehoiachin at Table
Nathan MacDonald (Not Bread Alone, 176–7) has a fascinating chapter on the role of food in the…
Titles We Didn’t Choose — December 2016
The December 2016 issue of First Things is ready for your perusal, in print and on our…
Lovers and Silent Women
Dympna Callaghan points out in her Shakespeare’s Sonnets that “Petrarchan love was always unrequited and unconsummated, like…
Feast of Kingship
Nathan MacDonald (Not Bread Alone) argues that “The description of the feast in [Isaiah] 25.6–8 is usually…
Tangled
Emma Tarlo’s recent Entangled is a study of the global market in human hair. In a TLS…
Stop!
“Scott Alexander” (a pseudonym) applies some common sense the media characterization of Trump as an “openly racist”…
Three Forms of Madness
In an editorial introduction to King Lear, GK Hunter observes that the play depicts three forms of…
