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The task of the historian is typically that of spoiler. When someone at a dinner party declares that some recent action or event is “unprecedented,” it is the historian’s...

I was teaching an undergraduate colloquium on critical theory at the University of Notre Dame when the news broke of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes. The timing was...

Many years ago, I coined the term “Big Eva.” While today the term is used as a quick and lazy smear for any well-known figures of a previous generation...

Recent events in Canterbury and Rome underscore this year’s significant anniversaries. I am not thinking here of the obvious one: the 1700th year since the first ecumenical council set...

The most pressing question we face today is that of the Psalmist: “What is man?” So urgent is the question of man that the question of God has re-emerged...

While the U.S. was reeling from the assassination of Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, across the Atlantic another event of significance to the conservative political world took place: The...

Recent events indicate that the struggle against the dehumanization represented by trans ideology is far from over. True, the U.K. has closed down the Tavistock child gender identity clinic,...

Predictably, the recent proposed Texas and Louisiana laws that would require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments generated rhetorical legal controversies, driven by the selectively vigilant...

Even as I was writing my column on the irrelevance of mainline Christianity two weeks ago, the Church in Wales was providing yet more evidence of the self-inflicted nature...

If Ernest Hemingway were to interview American mainline Protestantism in 2025, the conversation would go something like this: “How did you go spiritually bankrupt?” “Two ways. Gradually and then...

Anyone who doubts that the abolition of man is a present-day reality need only look at the British headlines from the past few weeks. The House of Commons approved...

The current interest in the church and the sacred is cause for celebration, as Christianity offers the truth about what it means to be human: a creature made in...

The advent of Pride Month, albeit in recent years a slightly more muted affair than in the past, is an annual reminder of one of the central aspects of...

In this episode, First Things brings you the recording of the 2025 D.C. Lecture presented by Carl Trueman. Please subscribe to access more information about future lectures and many great...

Are we living at the Hour of the Fathers? Today, talk of early church theologians and ancient church wisdom is all around us. One could argue this has been...