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The Catholic Beethovenby nicholas chongoxford university, 336 pages, $99 On the cover of ­Nicholas Chong’s new book, The Catholic ­Beethoven, the skies are blue. That in itself deserves comment....

Light of the Mind, Light of the World:Illuminating Science Through Faithby spencer a. klavanskyhorse, 272 pages, $29.99 Spencer Klavan is a classicist who holds a ­doctorate in ancient Greek...

The Church Against the State:On Subsidiarity and Sovereigntyby andrew willard jonesnew polity, 321 pages, $34.95 Eight years ago, Andrew Willard Jones’s Before Church and State was described in these...

Mood Machine:The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfectby liz pellyatria/one signal, 288 pages, $28.99 The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long...

A Grand Slam for God:A Journey from Baseball Star to Catholic Priestby Burke MasterWord on Fire, 192 pages, $29.95 If I had a daughter on the cusp of adolescence,...

Out in some wild place, there stands a prophet. He is alone with the elements and his God. He has retreated from the crowds, yet again and again they follow him and demand a sign...

The Armagnac was low in the bottle when my host erupted on the subject of American empire. “We have farm boys from Iowa in every damned desert on earth! We have

I doubt the readers of First Things need persuading that pornography is bad. It might feel invigorating to revisit this moral, cultural...

It is often said that the end of Latin as the Church’s liturgical language was the most obvious change to Catholic life brought by the Second Vatican Council. There is truth to this, despite the fact...

Karl Ove ­Knausgaard treats the stage business of life with gravity, seeking in it, perhaps, some key to the way time slips away from us: “I got up, rinsed my plate at the sink, put it in the dishwasher.” His fiction is...

“I think religion has got everything appallingly wrong,” Sir Diarmaid ­MacCulloch told an interviewer in 2015, “and it has been terrible for us in sexual terms.” Now here is the book to prove it, and you could not find a...

On the Dignity of Society is an anthology of Russell Hittinger’s previously published articles, organized into three parts: Catholic social teaching, natural law, and “First Truths.” Like Hittinger’s previous work...

I grew up in a religiously sympathetic, if not always actively practicing, household. During my toddler years, my family attended an Orthodox church on the other side of town, where I would sit at the back...

German readers have a powerful appetite for doorstop political autobiographies, gossip-filled 600- and 700-page apologias by major statesman and even minor party hacks...

Dawn’s Early Light:Taking Back Washington to Save Americaby kevin d. robertsbroadside, 304 pages, $32 When Kevin Roberts became president of the Heritage Foundation in 2021, he set out to...