Mark Bauerlein

Faith in the Modern Age: New and Notable Books

Lots of new books are documenting the difficulties of faith at the present time, as well as interesting…
Liel Leibovitz

Radical Disembodiment

Super Bowl ads are a great American art form. Paying eight million dollars or more for a chance…
George Weigel

Against the Politics of Grievance

Woke,” shorthand for what was once known as “political correctness,” helped fuel a grievance-based progressive politics that did…
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Elon’s Family Values

Matthew Schmitz
A battle has broken out on the American right. Two visions of what it means to have children are contending for supremacy. On one side stands the genetic-determinist right, which…

Goldilocks Protestantism

Brad East

Imagine a world without Protestantism. I don’t mean a world without Christians who are neither Catholic nor…

Radical Disembodiment

Liel Leibovitz

Super Bowl ads are a great American art form. Paying eight million dollars or more for a…

In Search of Turkish Delight

Valerie Stivers

In a final scene of ­Dorothy Sayers’s 1930 novel Strong ­Poison, a murderer devours a large quantity…

The Return of Strong Religion

R. R. Reno

The wind has shifted. People want hard religion, not easy religion. They seek out communities that are…

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Snow What?

The editors discuss the live-action Snow White, Disney’s biggest flop in recent memory. Did the star hijack it with her woke statements—or was she scapegoated? Is Disney worthy of…

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The End of White Privilege

Host: Mark Bauerlein GUEST: A.J. Rice

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…

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Fulton Sheen: Master Evangelist

Host: Mark Bauerlein GUEST: Cheryl Hughes

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…

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The Pitfalls of Making America “Hot” Again

Virginia Aabram
Over the last four years, a refrain in the MAGA movement gave hope to those recoiling from the ugliness of the woke era: “Make America Hot Again.” It was…

Aging and the Quest for Immortality

Francis X. Maier

Nobody wants to live to be a hundred, except the guy who’s ninety-nine. Or so the saying…

Adolescence Is Unrealistic

John Duggan

The fictional Netflix drama series Adolescence is making TV ratings history in the U.K. Jamie Miller, a…

Faith in the Modern Age: New and Notable Books

Mark Bauerlein

Lots of new books are documenting the difficulties of faith at the present time, as well as…

The Erosion of Sin

John Wilson

Readers of the April issue of First Things will have seen James F. Keating’s learned and perceptive…

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AI Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing

Thomas Fowler

Artificial intelligence is an umbrella term covering ­many beliefs about the powers possessed by computers, both now…

The Pillar and Foundation of Truth: A Statement by Evangelicals and Catholics Together

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?

Ericka Andersen

For Emily Ballou, it seemed like the perfect solution. She had always wanted to adopt a child…

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Omnis in Scripturas

Rhys Laverty

Out in some wild place, there stands a prophet. He is alone with the elements and his…

No Country for Christendom

Martin Gramling

The Armagnac was low in the bottle when my host erupted on the subject of American empire.…

Sex in the Frame

Mary Harrington

I doubt the readers of First Things need persuading that pornography is bad. It might feel invigorating…

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Honeymoon Road Signs on I-10 East in Arizona 

J. C. Scharl

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

Ben Myers

The living soul will demand life, the living soul won’t listen to mechanics, the living soul is…

The End of March 

Sally Thomas

Stands of bearded iris, purple in mourningSpring up, early, among their cool green speartips,Pale and pointed, palmlike,…

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