Americans and the Arts
by Mark BauerleinFeaturing Sunil Iyengar on current trends in Americans’ engagement with the arts. Continue Reading »
Featuring Sunil Iyengar on current trends in Americans’ engagement with the arts. Continue Reading »
Featuring First Things editor R. R. Reno on the books that formed him in youth. Continue Reading »
When a humanities department selects its materials because they reflect identity groups, it no longer functions as a humanities department.
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Yes, you can read all of Shakespeare's works in a year. Continue Reading »
First Things contributor Gerald McDermott's most personal book to date. Continue Reading »
The film is in large part about the failures and sins of American church culture—but you can also tell that Cone is honoring the place and community that shaped him. Continue Reading »
In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, Rusty Reno offers a brilliant, accessible and modestly optimistic take on the possibilities for positive change in our current cultural climate, upon which I offer some modestly pessimistic thoughts. Continue Reading »
Ideas have consequences. They are also vehicles of truth, and of uplift. Continue Reading »
The Culture War is over. Culture is dead, the coup de grace inflicted by an Unholy Trinity. Now begins the Age of the Anti-Culture. Continue Reading »
I want to tell you a story. Part of it is my story. But the important part isn’t mine. It belongs to a North African woman named Fatima. And to countless others like her.I first met Fatima at Dollar Tree. It was her bright clothing that caught my eye. A colorful piece of cloth called a malhafa was . . . . Continue Reading »