How Sweden’s Immigrant Vote Toppled the Right
For decades, Sweden had perhaps the most open immigration policy and the strongest commitment to tolerance and multiculturalism in the West. That changed in 2015, when the Sweden Democrats…
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The Left Is Right About the Bible
A Culture of Parricide
I learned a new word the other day: déploration. It’s the French, directly from the Latin, for “lament.”…
Algorithm, Interface, and AI
Many conversations about artificial intelligence end in a stalemate: A sentiment like “ChatGPT is awful because kids…
Serial Liar, Serial Comma
How would you write a public letter that you know will become front-page news? Would you write…
Who Killed the Clancy Children?
After a Massachusetts jury failed to convict Lindsay Clancy of strangling her three small children to death…
Icarus Descending
How Sweden’s Immigrant Vote Toppled the Right
For decades, Sweden had perhaps the most open immigration policy and the strongest commitment to tolerance and…
Armenia’s Unbroken Courage
In mid-September, I joined a lunch with the leaders of a village in Syunik, southern Armenia. The…
Be Wise as Chameleons
Visiting Philippi on his second missionary expedition, Paul starts a riot. When he casts a python demon…
Betting Against Your Neighbor
At a semiannual conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, D. Todd Christofferson—one of…
The Myth of St. Francis
At the beginning of his 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis speaks of “an episode in the…
Job and Her
It is said that Job lost everything, but she has lost more. All her possessions—the money, the…
De Gaulle Triumphant
The Second World War left Europe invaded and ruined, divided between Soviet and American occupations. Hitler’s defeat…
Meet the Post-Religious Right
There have been many books written about the online right and the Trump movement, most by people…
Smashing the Images
As the postwar era draws to an end, some Christians continue to reach for analogies to the…
The Cold Beauty of Jan Morris
Jan Morris (1926–2020) was a writer of astounding gifts who not only recorded history but made it.…
The Chariot Burials
Wheeling through the clotted earth, / Bronze, bone, and leather clumped in clay…
William of St. Thierry
“Where love and understanding join, hearts are tranquil, / They rise above the turmoil of this world…
Lethe
He thought he saw her in the orchid house / and all the flowers seemed to disappear…
Iraq and the Moral Judgement
Some readers have complained that First Things, and I in particular, have had a great deal to…
Just War and Iraq Wars
The first phase of the Iraq Wars came to a dramatic—and ominously prophetic—denouement on that heady day…
The Good Samaritan’s Burden
In his interestingly wrong-headed essay, Paul Miller argues that there are extraterritorial evils so great that they…
The Theology of Foreign Policy
On matters of foreign policy, Americans are divided into two hidden camps. Not Republicans versus Democrats, nor…
America’s Fighting Faith
The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interestby walter a. mcdougallyale,…
Small Wars, Big Plans
Less than a year after the attack of September 11, Americans have just about succeeded in absorbing…
