What Progressives Did to Cities
by Michael AntonCrime-fighting mayors brought about an urban renaissance. It ended gradually, then suddenly.
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Remembering Gerald Russello (1971–2021)
by Stephen SchmalhoferGerald Russello worked at the center of things and lived in the service of the permanent things. Continue Reading »
Why I Sued Governor Cuomo For the Right to Worship
by Nicholas DiMarzioNew York’s failure to recognize the importance of the Mass is plain wrong. Continue Reading »
Give My Regards to New York
by Kari Jenson GoldEven before de Blasio brought the place to her knees, New York had ceased to be as compelling. Continue Reading »
Cultural Nihilism
by R. R. RenoThe decline in life expectancy in the United States is a symptom of a failing culture. It is driven by deaths of despair: Suicide rates are up, as are drug overdoses and alcohol-related diseases. Those are hard, cruel facts. There are other signs of failure, more auspicious ones. We read about young . . . . Continue Reading »
Your First Things Community
by Ramona TauszIn the midst of our atomized world, First Things offers a community—a place where you will find others eager to join you in opposing the chaos of contemporary life. Continue Reading »
Events Roundup—10.19.17
by The EditorsEvents happening in the next month that may interest our readers. Continue Reading »
Leaving Brooklyn
by Gerald J. RusselloMy family had been in Brooklyn (or, as I will ever call it, God’s country) for over a century, refugees from the Lower East Side and a Jacob Riis–style life in early-twentieth-century New York. My father didn’t speak much about his youth in Bensonhurst, but what he did say was enough to fill . . . . Continue Reading »
Why Is There Nothing Instead of Something?
by Anthony SacramoneI commute to work on the NYC subway system every day, a routine no longer subject to the provisions enumerated in the UN Convention Against Torture owing to a jurisdiction dispute. One of the ways the Transit Authority mollifies those of us trapped into favoring it with our custom is to post . . . . Continue Reading »
Life in the Little Apple
by James NuechterleinIn Manhattan, those so inclined can know in their neighborhood an experience of community available to relatively few people elsewhere in the . . . . Continue Reading »
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