In Memoriam Michael Novak

by R. R. Reno

Our public life is the better for his many decades of analysis, commentary, and spirited partisanship on behalf of higher religious, moral, and political truths. Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2017 0

The Body of Evidence

by Carl R. Trueman

Transgenderism, rather like abortion, puts the law in a contradictory position on the nature of personhood in our contemporary world. Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2017 0

Index Verborum Prohibitorum

by Mark Bauerlein

The idiom of adolescence must go. Continue Reading »

21 Feb 2017 0

Still Waking Up

by Samuel D. James

If in truth we find human dignity, then the reverse is also true: Where truth is cast aside, so also is human dignity. Continue Reading »

17 Feb 2017 0

What We've Been Reading—2.17.17

by Editors

Mark Bauerlein: Reading the 1991 novel A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin (a contributor to this month's magazine) is like going back to the great works of the 19th century. Like Sir Walter Scott's historical novels, it takes place amidst events events that changed the course of human affairs, in this case, World War I, but remains vividly focused on one character's fate. Continue Reading »

17 Feb 2017 0

​Love Among the Artifacts

by Matthew Hennessey

This business of signing the inside covers of books is both charming and macabre. People die; books live forever. Scrawling on a flyleaf is a down payment on immortality. Think of me, it says. Memento mori. Continue Reading »

17 Feb 2017 0

The Peace Treaty

by R. R. Reno

When we pledge our faithfulness to another on our wedding day, we’re mocking the changeableness of life, saying that we trust in the covenant of marriage to transcend the weakness of our flesh, the fickleness of our passions, and the fragility of our egos. Continue Reading »

14 Feb 2017 0

Saint Valentine, Martyr

by C. C. Pecknold

Whatever one thinks about the day that bears his name—so unjustly desacralized, in my opinion—it seems fitting that this day still retains a memory of a love which is hidden. Continue Reading »

14 Feb 2017 0

Life on the Line in Ireland

by The Editors

The First Things Podcast, Episode 23. Featuring: An Irish Senator argues against repeal of Ireland’s pro-life Eighth Amendment; and Rusty Reno reflects on recent headlines. Continue Reading »

14 Feb 2017 0

When the Radio Breaks

by Roy Peachey

In Gautreaux’s stories, signals demand knowledge, even wisdom, if they are to be understood. Continue Reading »

9 Feb 2017 0