Homelands and Social Doctrines

by George Weigel

There was serious Catholic failure in Latin America, and the bishops with whom I spoke were honest enough to admit it. Continue Reading »

20 Jun 2018

Paul Schrader’s Acts of Repentance

by Armond White

Religious films rarely receive critical acclaim these days, but a recent exception is Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. Continue Reading »

19 Jun 2018

State Irreligion

by Marcel Proust

When one is delivered from a duty, one is less free. Continue Reading »

18 Jun 2018

Punching Above Our Weight

by Julia Yost

First Things has no stable of staff writers, nor are we underwritten by billionaire benefactors and ad revenue from Fortune 500 corporations. Continue Reading »

15 Jun 2018

“Grace” in Ebbing, Missouri

by Peter J. Leithart

Writer and director Martin McDonagh has put us in a Flannery O’Connor world. Continue Reading »

15 Jun 2018

Poland and the Future
of Europe

by Jozef Andrew Kosc

Polish society represents an integral and democratic Catholicism, one that has resisted the anti-culture of postmodernism and neoliberal cosmopolitanism. Continue Reading »

14 Jun 2018

Our Mission Against Despair

by Ramona V. Tausz

“The work of dying well,” wrote Richard John Neuhaus, “is, in largest part, the work of living well.” Continue Reading »

13 Jun 2018

After the Irish Debacle

by George Weigel

With Ireland having joined the Gadarene rush into legalizing the dictatorship of relativism, what next? Continue Reading »

13 Jun 2018

Freedom and First Things

by R. R. Reno

First Things exists to liberate modern men and women of faith from bondage to secular falsehoods. Continue Reading »

13 Jun 2018

The Man Who Stole the World

by John Waters

Bowie was a canary in the coal mine of post-1960s culture, plumbing its depths and soaring above almost everyone else. Continue Reading »

12 Jun 2018