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Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg, better known by his pen name Novalis, died at the age of twenty-eight. During his short life, he was prolific enough to cement his...

Sixty-four percent of American Catholics say the Church should allow women to be ordained as priests, according to Pew Research. In several Latin American countries, women’s ordination is even...

Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not” (Jon. 3:9). These words, spoken by the king of Nineveh, are often read at the opening of Lent...

A first proposition: High-quality film video lowers the cost of horror to zero. The horror of the horror genre can't compete ontologically with the horror of a snuff film or a beheading on the dark web...

First Things is proud to introduce a new podcast series. Secret Third Thing is a show about contemporary culture. First Things editors Virginia Aabram and Germán S. Díaz del...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini had only just turned twenty when he finished his sculpture of ­Aeneas, the mythical founder of Rome, in his escape from the conquered city of Troy....

The University of Notre Dame does not have a problem outlining its ambition to be the world’s leading Catholic university, but it faces perennial problems in fulfilling this goal....

P D. James’s detective novels, featuring Inspector Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, are every bit as gripping as those penned by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edith Pargeter...

The Battle of Minneapolis is the latest flashpoint in our ongoing regime-level political conflict. It pits not just rival political parties, but diametrically opposed conceptions of government against one...

The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS) was released in early December. It generated an unusual amount of commentary. Many responded with a reflexively anti-Trump reading of the document....

A recent Substack post, “The parish you hate might need you,” went viral for suggesting that “church-hopping is killing our parishes.” The author, Patrick Neve, believes that Catholic church...

It was a brisk early morning when I set off from the John Jay Institute last Friday to attend the March for Life in Washington, D.C. Having just spent...

A lawyer friend who defends cops in use-of-force cases cautioned me not to draw conclusions about the Renee Good shooting from video evidence, no matter how decisive it looks....

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Daniel McCarthy joins in to discuss his recent article, “The plot against J.D. Vance.” The...

In 2014, when Kevin Malone’s opera Mysterious 44 premiered in Manchester, England, the production featured narrative voiceovers by Richard Dawkins. It was a fitting choice. Funded in part by...