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On Sunday night, while accepting her Academy Award for Best Actress, Hollywood star Jessie Buckley spoke lovingly of her baby daughter who had “no idea what was going on” and was “probably dreaming of milk.”...

When Technoblade, a popular Minecraft streamer, announced his cancer diagnosis in August 2021, the outpouring of support was immense. Though millions of viewers had never met him in person,...

The debates of the past year or two surrounding the Second World War have exposed fault lines in American political culture. The war became a surprising issue in the...

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, John Sailer joins in to discuss his recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “The...

Some years ago, I was a resident at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, a small postindustrial town in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. In a free moment,...

Almost one year in, Pope Leo’s vision for his pontificate is still coming into focus. But there are a few key characteristics that are worth noting. First, and most...

The Prodigal of Leningradby daniel taylorparaclete press, 256 pages, $21.99 There is of course no generic “Russian novel.” Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy; Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Sinyavsky/Tertz; the Strugatsky brothers: all Russian...

Back in college, one of my literature professors once remarked that the first hundred pages of a Balzac novel are often boring, but the ones that follow are the most gripping you have ever read in your life...

Longtime readers of First Things will probably be able to guess the third in this sequence: Catholic, Protestant, _______. Astute observers will also note that First Things has so...

for my friend Greg.Cancer is trying to kill him,and so I begfor chemo to save him,a respite from his pain.I pray The Sorrowful Mysteriesand realize again that none of...

Wise, you fur-framed ghost.Rise, you antler-crowned king.Let sinew and bone stitch together again.Let ears and tail be joined once more by skin.Leap from the roadside where you have slept.Leap...

A few years ago, I had some routine surgery. Something went wrong in recovery. The nurses on the floor couldn’t fix it. They couldn’t find the specialist. It was Sunday....

Everyone assures us that we enjoy the blessings of progress: Capitalism has produced great ­material wealth, modern technoscience has provided countless benefits. But the development that is pressed upon...

Last year, Kanye West—sometimes known as Ye—released a song titled “Nigga Heil Hitler.” The music video featured rows of black men bathed in blue light fiercely intoning the title...

When Homer was a little boy,He never had a single toy.All his play was in his mind;In that sense only he was blind. The bard is not a slave...