The Metaphysics of Bostock

by David S. Crawford

Bostock’s metaphysical assumptions will further undermine the “binary” character of sex, as they have for the larger “gender identity” movement. Continue Reading »

2 Jul 2020

A Godless Great Awakening

by Joshua Mitchell

Identity politics provides a cheap shortcut to redemption, a fig leaf that hides man from his own darkened heart. Continue Reading »

2 Jul 2020

A Dark Cloud For Democracy

by Carl R. Trueman

Britain's news headlines are not dominated by events in its most recently ceded colony but by domestic protests about police violence in Minneapolis. Continue Reading »

8 Jun 2020

Queer Times

by Carl R. Trueman

The LGBTQ debate is about the radical abolition of metaphysics and metanarratives and any notion of cultural stability that might rest thereupon. Continue Reading »

21 May 2020

Briefly Noted

by Various

In September 1944, Helmuth von Moltke sat in Berlin’s Tegel prison, awaiting execution. The Nazis had arrested him for organizing the ­Kreisau Circle, a resistance group formed to plan a more democratic future Germany. Helmuth’s death drew near, yet, as his wife Freya wrote to him, “The best . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2020

Letters

by Various

Theodore Dalrymple (“Identity as Ideology,” February) is certainly correct to point to the yearning for transcendence that was not—and likely cannot be—obliterated in people like André Hébert when they lose the will to enter into communion with the traditional means of attaining . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2020

More Than Our Appetites

by J. D. Flynn

Fr. James Martin’s work fails to express, or even take into account, Catholic teaching on what it means to be a person. Continue Reading »

18 Feb 2020

Common Good Conservatism In Action

by Terry Schilling

As the new year begins, conservative lawmakers in numerous states have started a fresh attempt to push back against the LGBT agenda. Continue Reading »

17 Feb 2020

Identity as Ideology

by Theodore Dalrymple

Like many persons possessing limited insight into the future, I had supposed that, with the collapse of the Soviet Empire, utopianism would die out in the Western world. I was mistaken. Identity politics in the West is veering in the direction of totalitarianism. A book I read . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2020

Arguing for Truth in the Anti-Culture

by Carl R. Trueman

First Things remains committed to showing that honest, open discussion of the most important issues in this earthly city are vital. Continue Reading »

24 Dec 2019