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CRACOW. I usually find the quadrennial FIFA World Cup aggravating for the five reasons enumerated below, plus one other: My students here in the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the...

When people ask where I intern, I watch their faces carefully. I say: First Things, a journal of religion and public life founded by a Lutheran pastor who soon...

What follows is a lightly edited version of the written testimony Camosy prepared for the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on “Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain: Implications...

The media would like you to know that the Great American State Fair, which took over the National Mall this month, was not, in fact, great. Snooty social media...

America has just celebrated its 250th birthday amid a quiet but consequential confusion: a growing tendency to treat the American Revolution and the French Revolution as siblings—two chapters in...

Several weeks after the 2016 election, Marjorie Dannenfelser received a voicemail from President-Elect Donald J. Trump. Her organization, the Susan B. Anthony List, had knocked on over a million...

When I traveled to Norway for the first time, I was already a devoted reader of Sigrid Undset and in awe of her courage and character. A Nobel laureate...

To Arrive Where We Started:Belonging in the Modern World by ian marcus corbinyale university press, 200 pages, $32.50 Ian Marcus Corbin’s new book, To Arrive Where We Started, offers a...

Famesick:A Memoirby lena dunhamrandom house, 416 pages, $32 If offered the choice, how many of us would take riches, fame, and recognition, even if the price is a half-life?...

Robert Louis Wilken—radical Christian disciple, devoted husband and father, distinguished patristics scholar, elegant writer, serious baseball guy—died on June 6, a few months short of age ninety. Curiously enough,...

In 2026, three anniversaries coincide that together illuminate the enduring significance of religious liberty. Apart from marking 250 years since the founding of the United States and a political...

Great Books are back on everyone’s mind. Christopher Nolan is making a film about one. Many fear a sacrilege—with good reason: Nolan is reported to approve of Emily Wilson’s...

In the fall of 1992, a Yale freshman named Jared Waxman wrote a letter to the editor of the Yale Herald. The Yale Freshmen Assembly had been held on...

Novelists, playwrights, and historians, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (1822–1896 and 1830–1870) were also the supreme chroniclers of the Parisian literary and artistic life of their time. The diary...

And so it has happened. The Society of St. Pius X has gone ahead with its illicit ordination of four new bishops, and the Vatican has responded with the...