About those Unthinking, Backwards Catholics

by Charles J. Chaput

Clinton’s entourage are actively strategizing how to shape Catholicism not to be Catholic or consistent with Jesus’s teachings, but to be the “religion” they want. Continue Reading »

13 Oct 2016

While We’re At It

by R. R. Reno

♦ Early in July, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia issued a set of guidelines for implementing Pope Francis’s ­apostolic exhortation on marriage and family, Amoris Laetitia. The document urges the Church’s pastors to recognize that Catholics ­today are often profoundly misled by the prevailing . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2016

The Roster of Stigma

by Mark Bauerlein

Basket of Deplorables. So canned and promiscuous a characterization does precisely what progressives such as Mrs. Clinton claim the bigots do: generalize and demonize others to the point of dehumanization. Continue Reading »

14 Sep 2016

Burrowing In

by Peter J. Leithart

The next president will have troops of civil rights attorneys poised to enlighten the ignorant masses and to punish states and school districts for treating boys as boys and girls as girls. Continue Reading »

26 Aug 2016

Bigot-Baiting

by R. R. Reno

I can’t imagine a policy more irrelevant to the problems facing our society than bathroom privileges for transgender students. The bottom half of American society is collapsing. Voters are revolting against establishment candidates, casting doubt on the economic and cultural . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2016

Denunciation Overload

by R. R. Reno

Given the fact that the regular opinion writers for our nation's establishment liberal paper so often indulge in denunciation, I find it more than a little odd that everyone is hysterical about Donald Trump's intemperate rhetoric. Continue Reading »

18 Jul 2016

Introducing the First Things Podcast

by The Editors

Episode 1 takes you inside our August-September issue, and sorts through news and punditry. Trump's faith, “bigot-baiting” in Bakersfield, and the dehumanizing policies of Amnesty International are all on the agenda. Continue Reading »

15 Jul 2016

Obergefell and the New Gnosticism

by Sherif Girgis

For decades, the Sexual Revolution was supposed to be about freedom. Today, it is about coercion. Once, it sought to free our sexual choices from restrictive laws and unwanted consequences. Now, it seeks to free our sexual choices from other people's disapproval. Continue Reading »

28 Jun 2016

An Inquisition Is Not a Witch-Hunt

by David P. Goldman

Members of traditional religions became moral outlaws in the United States once equal rights for sexual preference and gender choice were enshrined in regulation and law. This Inquisition, though, will not be defeated by reasoned pleas but by concerted counterattacks. Continue Reading »

28 Jun 2016

The Bible, Corrected

by Robert M. Price

I Corinthians 6:9 Do not be deceived. Neither sexists, nor racists, nor ageists, nor looksists, nor ableists shall inherit the People’s Republic of God.  Luke 24:44 Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written . . . . Continue Reading »

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