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A Tale of Two Marxisms
Last Friday I had the pleasure of hearing Carlo Lancelotti and Michael Hanby give presentations at a…
Lasch, Populism, and Conservatism
The recent issue of Modern Age contains a commemorative essay by Susan McWilliams marking the twenty-fifth anniversary…
Election Day Prayer
O God of earth and altar, bow down and hear our cry, our earthly rulers falter, our…
The Ways of Figuration
In his Apocalypse Commentary, Nicholas of Lyra pauses from his comments on Revelation 11:11 to describe the…
Building a Human House
David is the hyperactive organizer of the effort to bring the ark into Jerusalem. After the first…
The Critic’s Calling
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays by cynthia ozick houghton mifflin harcourt, 224 pages, $25 At…
The Blue Angel Syndrome
Many years ago, flipping through the channels, I came across an old black-and-white film, made in German…
Sacrilege or Exaltation
The Hebrew word ma’al is a key term in Chronicles. It means “act of unfaithfulness” or “sacrilege,”…
Cowboys, Robots, and Private Eyes
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: 1:10 Senior editor Mark Bauerlein explains how classic hardboiled…
What We’ve Been Reading—11.4.16
Elliot Milco: I’ve spent much of my free time over the past two weeks watching the AMC…
Defending Conscience Rights at Hacksaw Ridge and in the HHS Cases
Today, American moviegoers will flock to theatres to view Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge. In vivid detail, the…
Finding Stable Ground
In the midst of scandals, intra-ecclesial ideological battles, and a widespread attitude of indifference—if not scorn—toward religion…
American Prestige in Freefall
Writing in The Australian, Paul Kelly views the state of American politics from Down Under. He gets…
Childhood, Guardian-Style
The Guardian, that British bastion not merely of the bien pensants but of the très bien pensants,…
Pain and Negation
In her The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry describes the “aversiveness” of our experience of pain. By…
