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In this episode, First Things brings you the recording of the Inaugural Neuhaus Lecture presented by Patrick J. Deneen. Please subscribe at www.firstthings.com/subscribe in order to access this and many other great...

The American Political Science Association (APSA) is the main professional organization for academics who work, teach, and research in the area of political science. It hosts an annual meeting...

Amy Coney Barrett is my neighbor and friend. This fact, along with my complete lack of familiarity or expertise in her scholarly and judicial work, gives me no special...

The New Class War:Saving Democracy from the Managerial Eliteby michael lindportfolio, 224 pages, $25 Michael Lind’s The New Class War is sure to be one of the most important...

From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriageby darel e. paulbaylor, 256 pages, $39.95 In 2013, the Supreme Court reversed a determination by the Internal Revenue...

During one of the more infamous moments in Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that the ideal city needs a founding myth—what he calls “a noble lie”—to ensure its success. The...

The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by Rod Dreher Sentinel, 272 pages, $25 Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a...

As the dust from the recent explosion over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act begins to settle, one thing is clear: Republicans and Christians lost, Democrats and gay activists won....

For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts—the “great books”—as a vital element of a liberal arts education during a time when...

Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life portrays the decent life of a small-town American, George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart), an everyman who saves his community from an evil Scrooge—Henry F....

Based on a report in yesterday’s Bloomberg , the decision by the Obama Administration to require many religious institutions to provide contraception through existing health care plans is bearing...

“Unsustainable Liberalism” is one of three addresses given to a symposium on “After Liberalism,” put on in late February with the support of the Simon/Hertog Fund for Policy Analysis...

Stumping in Iowa on May 24, President Obama declared, “We don’t need another political fight about ending a woman’s right to choose, or getting rid of Planned Parenthood, or...

For over seven years, I have had a mailbox just above E.J. Dionne’s in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. E.J. and I have always shared cordial relationships,...

In yesterday’s Washington Post , in anticipation of today’s address by Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at Georgetown University as part of its graduation exercises, the editorial staff...