Radical Disembodiment
Super Bowl ads are a great American art form. Paying eight million dollars or more for a chance to capture the collective national imagination in thirty seconds isn’t merely…
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Elon’s Family Values
Radical Disembodiment
Super Bowl ads are a great American art form. Paying eight million dollars or more for a…
In Search of Turkish Delight
In a final scene of Dorothy Sayers’s 1930 novel Strong Poison, a murderer devours a large quantity…
The Return of Strong Religion
The wind has shifted. People want hard religion, not easy religion. They seek out communities that are…
Goldilocks Protestantism
Imagine a world without Protestantism. I don’t mean a world without Christians who are neither Catholic nor…
Conversations
The End of White Privilege
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. A.J. Rice joins in to discuss his recent book, The White Privilege Album: Bringing Racial Harmony to…
Conversations
Fulton Sheen: Master Evangelist
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Cheryl Hughes joins in to discuss her recent book, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen: Convert Maker. The conversation…
Conversations
Woke vs. The Left
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. David Rieff joins in to discuss his recent book, Desire and Fate. The conversation is embedded below….
Lessons from the Decline of Protestant Churches
The Erosion of Sin
Readers of the April issue of First Things will have seen James F. Keating’s learned and perceptive…
Why the Department of Education Has to Go
In signing Executive Order 14242 (“Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities”), President Trump directed…
The Convert in the White House
The United States has had its share of prominent Catholic statesmen, but never one like Vice President…
Hope Without God?
Hopeful Pessimism by mara van der lugt princeton university press, 280 pages, $24.95 Is it possible to be…
The Pillar and Foundation of Truth: A Statement by Evangelicals and Catholics Together
As the People of God, the Church is the temple of the Holy Spirit, Christ’s very body…
Who Owns the Embryos?
For Emily Ballou, it seemed like the perfect solution. She had always wanted to adopt a child…
AI Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing
Artificial intelligence is an umbrella term covering many beliefs about the powers possessed by computers, both now…
Omnis in Scripturas
Out in some wild place, there stands a prophet. He is alone with the elements and his…
No Country for Christendom
The Armagnac was low in the bottle when my host erupted on the subject of American empire.…
Sex in the Frame
I doubt the readers of First Things need persuading that pornography is bad. It might feel invigorating…
Honeymoon Road Signs on I-10 East in Arizona
Zero visibility possible,you read aloud. The logic’s water-tight:there’s always a good chance for lack of sight. We…
The End of Politics
The living soul will demand life, the living soul won’t listen to mechanics, the living soul is…
The End of March
Stands of bearded iris, purple in mourningSpring up, early, among their cool green speartips,Pale and pointed, palmlike,…
Jurassic Lark
How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science by david hone…
Fighting the Noonday Devil
For most of the modern era, Christian apologists have emphasized the role of pride as the primary…
Jesus the Muslim Hippie
Many Christians and other non-Muslims who want to understand the Christ of Islam turn to the Qur’an,…
The Cross and the Machine
“Europeans didn’t only disinherit Aztecs and Incas. Continuously, since the sixteenth century, we have been disinheriting ourselves.”—John…
My Madness
My brother Peter was a wondrous boy, the youngest, brightest, and bounciest of three kids: IQ 165,…
Modernity’s Self-Destruct Button
All politics is local, as they say. And so, before we proceed to the big question of…
