Optimism at CPAC’s Pro-Life Panel

by Michael J. New

One year ago, we could not pass a twenty-week abortion ban; now we have a president who is “delivering on his promises”. Continue Reading »

28 Feb 2017 0

Spirit and Form

by The Editors

The First Things Podcast, Episode 24. Featuring: Reflections on the late Michael Novak (with special guest Midge Decter); and a battle cry for the traditional Latin Mass. Continue Reading »

27 Feb 2017 0

April Is the Coolest Month

by Matthew Schmitz

This week we put to bed the April issue of First Things, and it just might be our best one yet. Featuring: opioids, Chinese dissidents, and the miraculous resurgence of the Latin Mass. Continue Reading »

24 Feb 2017 0

Silence for Silence

by John Murdock

In the end, Silence was too Christian for Hollywood and too Hollywood for Christians. Continue Reading »

24 Feb 2017 0

Upcoming Events—2.23.17

by Editors

Mark your calendars for upcoming events, from New York to Oxfordshire to Rome. Continue Reading »

23 Feb 2017 0

Saint Peter’s Chair

by C. C. Pecknold

The feast is an exaltation of the Church militant, malignant, and triumphant.
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22 Feb 2017 0

In Memoriam Michael Novak

by R. R. Reno

Our public life is the better for his many decades of analysis, commentary, and spirited partisanship on behalf of higher religious, moral, and political truths. Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2017 0

The Body of Evidence

by Carl R. Trueman

Transgenderism, rather like abortion, puts the law in a contradictory position on the nature of personhood in our contemporary world. Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2017 0

Index Verborum Prohibitorum

by Mark Bauerlein

The idiom of adolescence must go. Continue Reading »

21 Feb 2017 0

Still Waking Up

by Samuel D. James

If in truth we find human dignity, then the reverse is also true: Where truth is cast aside, so also is human dignity. Continue Reading »

17 Feb 2017 0