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Protestants and American Conservatism:A Short Historyby gillis harp oxford, 336 pages, $36.95 Today, conservative critics of liberalism tend to be Catholic. Pundits warn of “‘post-liberal’ ferment among a coterie...

In South Dakota, some are arguing that protecting children is bad for business.  The state’s House of Representatives will vote today on a bill that would prohibit doctors from...

The Testamentsnnby margaret atwoodnntalese, 432 pages, $28.95 Novels are not slogans,” Margaret Atwood said in 1986 of The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). “If I wanted to say just one thing...

A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalismby adam gopnik basic, 272 pages, $28 Adam Gopnik is the New Yorker columnist notorious for comparing the post-9/11 scent of...

For much of their debate, hosted on Thursday at Catholic University of America, David French and Sohrab Ahmari were talking past each other.  When it comes to “civility and decency,” for instance, the two continue to operate on...

Sohrab Ahmari’s back-and-forth with David French began when Ahmari objected to a Sacramento public library hosting an event called “Drag Queen Story Hour.” “This is demonic,” he tweeted. “To...

The work of dying well,” wrote Richard John Neuhaus , “is, in largest part, the work of living well.” Unlike Neuhaus, we no longer know how to live—or to...

Prairie Fires:The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilderby caroline frasermetropolitan, 640 pages, $35 The Little House Books by laura ingalls wilder edited by caroline fraser library of america, 1,490...

There are some disadvantages to crowns, but otherwise, they’re quite important things.” So says Elizabeth II in the recent BBC documentary The Coronation, made to mark the 65th anniversary...

E. B. White begins Here Is New York, his much-celebrated 1949 ode to Manhattan, by remarking upon the city’s peculiar ability to bestow “the gift of loneliness and the...

As First Things reminded you last year, there’s a War on Advent going on. Although nearly a week remains before the Feast of the Nativity, our society has been...

In an era when romance is dead and divorce is considered a natural part of life, Shadowlands, now playing at the Acorn Theater in Manhattan, is both an old-fashioned...

Tomorrow Christendom observes the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. The woman from Magdala in Galilee was a financial supporter of Christ’s ministry, one of the last faithful to remain...

Earlier this summer, in the spot on the Sea of Galilee traditionally hailed as the site of Christ’s feeding of the five thousand, the Roman Catholic Church of the...