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In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV writes that a school should be a place where the young learn to “seek and love the truth.” He worries about an educational...

Speyer is a charming city on the west bank of the Rhine River. Its splendid medieval core is dominated by a magnificent eleventh-century cathedral, the resting place of German...

Who is Jason Arday? Until last week, the man at the center of the biggest recent scandal in Anglo-American higher education was professor of sociology of education at the...

The Lost Boys, a Broadway musical adapted from the 1980s vampire flick, opens with a flickering specter. A doomed cop is searching a condemned warehouse when a TV suddenly...

In his breakout 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain recounts his early years as a cook in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The memoir serves as the...

Here’s a simple, biblical truth: We’re never as smart as we think we are, and we’re never as wise as we need to be. The best intentions can have...

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Ralph C. Hancock joins in to discuss his recent book, Love and Virtue in a Secular...

Five years ago, the most powerful media companies in the world—Facebook and Twitter, as it was then called—chose to deplatform Donald Trump. They cited public safety concerns following the...

Last week, some 70,000 African migrants invaded Ceuta. A coastal town of 84,000 people, Ceuta is the last remnant of Spanish presence in North Africa, along with the town...

Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How It Went Mainstreamby dixie dillon laneeerdmans, 216 pages, $28.99 Dixie Dillon Lane’s Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and...

On June 10, First Things was delighted to host Éric Zemmour for an evening at our office. The occasion was the release of Nathan Pinkoski’s English translation of The...

As the mores of daily life in the twenty-first century change every month or two with the advent of the next digital novelty, lots of books on how to...

Like models in a fashion show, gaudy but unfulfilling icons of femininity parade before the women of my generation: the tradwife influencer marketing herself and her nutrition products through...

In his June 2 Wall Street Journal column, Jason L. Riley noted a disturbing trend in our American moment: “According to the Department of Labor, 1 in 3 men...

Tourism makes fact seem fiction. I feel confident Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, and I believe it is a great portrait, until I get to the room...