Clashing Victimocracies
by Peter J. LeithartPolitics dissolves into brutality unless it’s infused with apolitical habits and virtues—humility, gentleness, forbearance, forgiveness, kindness, charity, love. Continue Reading »
The Unspeakable Pleasure
by Leonard SaxWhy do a growing number of young people feel that they have permission to kill? Continue Reading »
Failure of Fatherhood
by Mark BauerleinHeather Mac Donald discusses how America’s high out-of-wedlock birthrate is at the heart of inner-city violence today. Continue Reading »
Welcome to Post-Christian Society
by The EditorsThe First Things Podcast, Episode 31. Featuring: Rusty Reno on Charlottesville and Matthew Schmitz on Convertgate. Continue Reading »
In Defense of Educational Administrators
by Carl R. TruemanThere are actually three certainties in life. There is death. There are taxes. And there are riots. Continue Reading »
Violent Lessons
by Matthew SchmitzChildren are not exposed to enough violence. Yes, I know the grim statistics, how a child who enters middle school has already witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 other violent acts on TV. As he and his friends enter adolescence, they take up first-person shooter video games. In college, he becomes . . . . Continue Reading »
Heaven in Ohio?
by Jerry L. WallsA book by Donald Ray Pollock is always an entertaining ride, by turns riveting, hilarious, revolting, and poignant. But reading Pollock can be surreal if you grew up a mile down the road from him in Knockemstiff, Ohio. Continue Reading »
Saints Marching in the Streets
by Jordan ZajacAs the Republican National Convention gets underway, and anxiety mounts over protests and public safety in Cleveland, it’s worthwhile to reflect on Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati’s brand of political activism. Continue Reading »
Sibling Rivals
by Phillip CaryNot in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violenceby jonathan sacksschocken, 320 pages, $28.95 Love can be a problem. To love is to have a beloved, a favorite, someone treasured above others. So love means not treating everyone the same. It is not justice. In politics, it means favoritism, . . . . Continue Reading »
Nostra Aetate Fifty Years On
by Jonathan SacksIt was, on the face of it, a minor theological gesture, yet it brought about one of the greatest revolutions in religious history. Nostra Aetate, the Catholic Church’s 1965 statement of relationships with non-Christian faiths, declared that “the Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or . . . . Continue Reading »
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