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Time to apply for the Junior Fellowship at First Things . As I wrote last year , here are Some of the Things You Might Do As a First...

Here’s a conflicted piece in this morning’s Los Angeles Times —transparently contemptuous of pro-life activism but respectful of the pain of men dealing with their complicity in abortion.

Robert Southwell is perhaps the most famous of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, a young sixteenth-century Jesuit who was hanged, drawn, and quartered for spending more than...

A Week in the Life of a First Things Junior Fellow (Somewhat Condensed and Idiosyncratic) Saturday, 7 pm: Night prayer, drinks, and dinner with Richard John Neuhaus Sunday, 1...

“Manliness is next to godliness,” ran the Los Angeles Times headline on December 7. The article examines “a contrarian movement gaining momentum on the fringes of Christianity” that rebels...

Last week I saw the final New York performance of a Twelfth Night now touring the United States, brought over by a British production company called Cheek by Jowl...

Assorted tech-savvy wags have created blogs for major literary figures ( G.K. Chesterton , for example), so it was inevitable that someone would create a blog for perhaps the...

For the past month, the New York Times has been running a series on “the new gender divide,” which “examin[es] what has happened to men and women several decades...