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Get Thee to an Altar
I wrote last week about some of the contributions made by R. R. Reno’s new book, Resurrecting…
Two Kingdoms, Three Estates, One Spirit
Bernd Wannenwetsch (Political Worship, 63–65) denies that in Luther’s theology politics and economics “count as being a…
Ritual and Liberalism
John Milbank and Adrian Pabst (The Politics of Virtue, 269) argue that secular critiques of liberalism cannot…
John Podesta, Son of the Church
In his Washington Post column today, E.J. Dionne (about whom I have written in these pages before,…
The Student of Politics Must Study the Soul
In his reply to our article, Matt Franck honors us with a thoughtful reflection on the city-soul…
Happy Birthday, Christianity Today!
Christianity Today is sixty years old this month. I remember clearly the day the first issue arrived…
What We’ve Been Reading—10.14.16
Elliot Milco: This week I’ve been reading the first volume of Volker Ullrich’s new biography Hitler: Ascent,…
A Catholic Spring?
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: 1:25 Literary editor Matthew Schmitz responds to criticisms of…
Economics for the Irrational
According to Mathew Crawford (The World Beyond Your Head), economics once held “that we are rational beings…
As a Little Child
Look at a wall, suggests Matthew Crawford (The World Beyond Your Head). What color is it? You…
Denominational DIscourse
Prior to the 1830s, argues JCD Clark (The Language of Liberty, 1660-1832), British political debate was carried…
Why We Sing
In Revelation, martyrs sing before martyrdom and after martyrdom (Revelation 14-15). Their martyr songs are the war…
Greek Love
Summarizing themes from his Love, Sex, and Tragedy, Simon Goldhill highlights the difference between ancient Greek conceptions…
The Poet and the Christian
In a TLS review of several new books on Kierkegaard, Will Rees comments on the therapeutic cruelty…
Queen of Snark
Devoney Looser says that Jane Austen’s juvenilia is an exercise in burlesque. Not the strip-tease variety, but…
