The 2012 June/July issue is now available online. What does this beige issue contain? R. R. Reno opens the magazine by reflecting on psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Righteous Mind and what it tells us about the limitations of contemporary liberali

On this President's Day, we offer selections from three articles we've published on Abraham Lincoln, all dealing in some way with his attempts to balance principle with practice, or rather to achieve his principles by understanding the situation, including th

The March issue is here! And let me tell you, it is an emotional rollercoaster ride. This month's Public Square is a touching remembrance by James Nuechterlein of "RJN and First Things" on the occasion of the start of our twenty-second year of publication. We

The February issue is here! And not a moment too soon. First thing first, we have James Nuechterlein's timely Public Square column in which he traces the few successes and many failures of America's attempts to solve its racial problems. Nearly five decades a

First Things’ January issue has been sent out to subscribers, and is now available online. It is, if we might say so, brimming with intellectual variety. The issue opens with James Nuechterlein’s “Public Square” column, in which he analyzes the roots of disc

Now online (and possibly in the mailboxes of those who subscribe), the November issue of First Things , featuring our first ever survey of America's colleges and universities. Unlike other rankings, we include the schools' social and religious life as well as

The October issue is—such is the way magazines work—in the mail and now available online. It is a full, stimulating, informative, entertaining, and provocative issue, if we say so ourselves. The issues opens with Joseph Bottum’s “Holy War Over Ground Zero, a

Readers of First Things now have new ways to access online articles. As always, print subscribers get free access to the latest issue, as well as twenty years worth of articles, reviews, poetry, and more from our archive of previous issues. (Has your subscri

Now available on newsstands and online—take a look at the latest issue of First Things! You’ll find it’s brimming with innovative ideas you’ve come to expect. Take, for instance, the in-depth case economist Timothy Reichert makes about how the phenomenon of c

The April Issue of First Things is now available on newstands and online! This issue is filled with thoughtful essays, critical reviews, and lovely poetry—all of which, for a limited time, you can access for free below! For starters, here's film critic Armond