Rooting Out the Weeds

by Megan Basham

First Things remains relevant by focusing on the eternal, not the fashionable. It is not merely conservative, but sound.  Continue Reading »

30 Jun 2023

Paradise in Savannah

by Mark Bauerlein

I can hardly imagine a more utopian time for a young intellectual, a reader of Great Books. Continue Reading »

2 May 2023

Culture of Fragility

by Simone M. Sepe

I bear a moral responsibility to uphold the truth and potentially disturb the comfort of those around me. Continue Reading »

2 May 2023

A Message for Humanities PhDs

by Mark Bauerlein

These classical schools are happy places. Humanities departments in higher ed are not.  Continue Reading »

27 Feb 2023

Why Are Universities So Ugly?

by Niall Gooch

Grandeur and beauty in interior decoration helps to give a sense of institutional authority and self-confidence in the face of demands from activist students intoxicated by What’s Happening Right Now. Continue Reading »

21 Nov 2022

A Tradition of Anti-Traditionalists

by Mark Bauerlein

What this bias in academia has produced is two generations of college teachers who don’t realize their bias. Continue Reading »

10 Nov 2022

Institutional Temptation

by Eric C. Smith and Andrew T. Walker

Any Christian institution that seeks to influence the commanding heights of elite culture while at the same time maintaining fidelity to its confession must beware of this temptation. Continue Reading »

20 Oct 2022

The Cancellation of Dr. Nassif

by Carl R. Trueman

Dr. Bradley Nassif’s reasoned, orthodox views on marriage and human sexuality have cost him his career at North Park University, an institution formally connected to the theologically conservative Evangelical Covenant Church. Continue Reading »

1 Sep 2022

Put Down the Woke Man's Burden

by James Hankins

A leader needs the ability to champion an institution’s goals in reasonable, moral terms that can win approbation from both subordinates and outsiders. Bad conduct, incompetent speech, neglect of institutional goods, pursuit of private or factional interests—all of that dishonors and dispirits the whole enterprise. Continue Reading »

25 Aug 2022

Gary Saul Morson on Suicide of the Liberals

by R. R. Reno

Gary Saul Morson joins R. R. Reno to talk about his article in the October 2020 issue, “Suicide of the Liberals.”  Continue Reading »

18 Aug 2022