Trigger Warning!
by The Editors The First Things Podcast, Episode 9. Anti-feminist icons remembered (the late Phyllis Schlafly) and welcomed (special guest Midge Decter). PC campus culture debated.
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Campus Moralism, Old and New
by Connor GrubaughThe question is not what makes free speech, but what makes good speech. Continue Reading »
Who Are the Campus Custodians?
by Mark BauerleinIn this regime that probes people’s minds for hidden assumptions, for biases concealed even from their holders, the custodians have an impossible task. Continue Reading »
Did You Get to Jersey Much?
by Brian DoyleBut if you looked at the map closely you would notice towns with names like Hohokus, and Buttzville, and Ong’s Hat, and clearly those were goof names, which made you suspect that there was actually no such thing as New Jersey, that New Jersey was an idea, an illusion, a conspiracy, a deft jest perpetrated by cartographers in their cups and now accepted as wholly real by all sorts of people. Continue Reading »
Mother Teresa’s Inspiration Day and Ours
by Br. Michael BaggotThose of us who aspire to transform the public square with some fraction of St. Teresa’s success would do well to imitate first her unyielding attention to divine communion and spiritual discernment of the signs of the times. Continue Reading »
Phyllis Schlafly and the Conservative Movement
by Mary Ellen BorkPhyllis Schlafly, who died on September 5, was the bane of feminists: a one-woman powerhouse of articulate conservative political positions, who relentlessly defended faith-and-family issues from liberal onslaughts. Continue Reading »
George Orwell’s Fierce Modesty
by Peter WehnerThis is among the hardest things for us to accept—that at best each of us, whether we’re reporting on an event or contemplating metaphysical matters, has only a partial knowledge of the truth. Continue Reading »
Teaching as Joyful Rebellion
by Carl R. TruemanGood teachers must believe something: That the world is and is inexhaustibly greater than they are. Continue Reading »
Burkinis, Anabaptists, and Living One’s Faith
by Veery HuleattFrance is forcing its Muslim citizens to make this choice: To be French, or to be Muslim. In accordance with the French policy of laïcité, French Muslims are told that, in order to be good citizens, they must keep their religion out of the public square. The way I dress seems to invite people to think in these terms, and to assert the principle that the spiritual life should not be lived in public. Continue Reading »
The Taming of the Beau
by Aimee ByrdWoman was not made to save civilization, nor to civilize man. She was made to be a companion to him, a necessary ally. But as we see throughout Scripture, since sin entered the world woman can function as either his ally or his opponent. Continue Reading »
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