John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus and Today’s Debates
by George WeigelNo doubt globalization has had adverse consequences for some Americans; it has also helped lift as many as two billion people out of abject poverty. Continue Reading »
Pacem in Terris After 60 Years
by George WeigelSixty years later, we find ourselves asking: Is the vision of Pope John XXIII's Pacem in Terris realistic? Continue Reading »
Cold War Contradictions
by Patrick PorterAnother Kennan biography? The study of George Kennan—American diplomat, strategic mind, and architect of the “containment” doctrine that guided U.S. policy throughout the Cold War—is so persistent in academic and policy circles that it has become almost a sub-discipline in . . . . Continue Reading »
Why China Loves Conservatives
by Eric Hendriks-KimConservatives in the West see in the People’s Republic of China a daunting nemesis: an oppressive tech dystopia ruled by a Leninist party that negates conservatism’s attachment to civil society, Christianity, and individual liberties. You might expect the intellectual mainstream in mainland . . . . Continue Reading »
On Property and Freedom
by Mark BauerleinOn this episode, Mark T. Mitchell joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class. Continue Reading »
Lutherans, Lenin, and Stalin
by Mark BauerleinMatthew Heise joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, The Gates of Hell: An Untold Story of Faith and Perseverance in the Early Soviet Union. Continue Reading »
Hall of Mirrors
by Gary Saul MorsonIn this unexpectedly timely collection of essays, the journalist David Satter recalls an adventure that informed all his subsequent writing about Russia and the Soviet Union. In 1977, having met some Lithuanian dissidents, Satter set off to visit their Estonian counterparts. Eluding the police . . . . Continue Reading »
The End of the End of the End
by Sam KrissAbout a decade ago, I would go to a party, get drunk off the kind of alcohol that’s sold in plastic bottles, snort up some dubious research chemicals, and then discover to my horror that I’d just spent the last hour talking to a complete stranger at a high clip about the labor theory of value. I . . . . Continue Reading »
Freedom After Communism
by Ben SixsmithThe fight for freedom can be intoxicating. Defining it has proved more difficult.
Continue Reading »
The Casaroli Myth
by George WeigelThe ongoing Roman celebration of the Casaroli Ostpolitik as a triumph for Vatican diplomacy and a model for the future is sheer mythmaking—and damaging mythmaking at that. Continue Reading »
America's most
influential
journal of
religion and
public life
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
influential
journal of
religion and
public life
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
Filter Tag Articles
Subscribe Today!
