Today marks the beginning of R.R. Reno’s editorship of First Things . Formerly a senior editor of this magazine, Reno is most recently the author of Fighting the Noonday Devil . David Mills—-once the editor of Touchstone and previously this magazine’s Deputy Editor—-has become Executive Editor. Finally, the magazine welcomes Matthew Schmitz—-previously the managing editor of Public Discourse —-as its new Deputy Editor.
Notes on Anosmia
One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had…
Empire of Unreality
Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…