Everyone’s talking about marriage these days. Even those who don’t believe in it are talking about it all the time. The definition of marriage, the future of marriage, gay marriage, divorce and remarriage, when to get married, how to be married, how to stay married. It’s simultaneously being . . . . Continue Reading »
On Thursday, First Things will be hosting a musical performance and art talk, “Microtonality and the Fragmented Face.” Fragmentation, the breakdown of the unities and coherences that make the world intelligible, is one of the great themes of contemporary life. Our understanding of the world is . . . . Continue Reading »
Introducing an essay on the evacuation of the body from law. Continue Reading »
Liturgical Time Travel
Br. Humbert Kilanowski, O. P., Dominicana
Batman V. Superman: Battle Without Honor or Humanity
Alexi Sargeant, Acculturated
Restrictions on Women's Religious Attire
Staff, Pew Research Center
How Covenants Make Us
David Brooks, New York Times
A Happy Marriage Across Party Lines
Jeanne Safer, Wall Street Journal
The Mighty and the Almighty: George W. Bush
Hannah Malcolm, Theos
The Literary Magazine of the Dark Web
Nathan Smith, Atlantic
Give Sorrow Words: On the Many Stagings of Macbeth
Kevin D. WIlliamson, New Criterion
What I've Learned Reciting Poems in the Street
Gary Dexter, Spectator
Last night Rabbi Jonathan Sacks delivered an uplifting talk at the Center for Jewish History. He argued that the Jewish nation had blessed the world through words. Its commitment to wide literacy nurtured an ethic of equality on which our civilization rests (“And in thy seed shall all the nations . . . . Continue Reading »
Every practicing Catholic in America is stuck between two worlds. On one hand, he inhabits a broadly secular culture, one indifferent to claims about the transcendent, in which the currency of human exchange is always some mix of money, pleasure, and power. His participation in that culture is nearly constant—it surrounds him in mass media, on the internet, in patterns of speech, in social expectations, and in the aims and operations of his government. The modern Catholic in America is swimming in secularity. Continue Reading »
Over at the Guardian, Paul Mason writes about the disintegration of Britain's working class. The occasion is the publication of a report on educational achievement, analyzed in terms of the ethnicity of pupils. It turns out that white British kids fall behind during their school years, with . . . . Continue Reading »
Rachel Held Evans is once again arguing against “The False Gospel of Gender Binaries.” Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder of a textbook example of eisegesis (reading “into” the biblical text one's own ideology) rather than exegesis (reading “out of” . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, someone told me about a relative who lives in Middle America, struggles with a working-class job, is a religious conservative, and can't stand the sight or sound of Hillary Clinton. “I don't get it,” she said. “This guy needs help with just the kinds of programs Hillary supports, . . . . Continue Reading »
School transgender policies may be well-intentioned but they might actually have unanticipated and significant implications for parents and for women. Continue Reading »
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