“Grace” in Ebbing, Missouri

by Peter J. Leithart

Writer and director Martin McDonagh has put us in a Flannery O’Connor world. Continue Reading »

15 Jun 2018 0

Punching Above Our Weight

by Julia Yost

First Things has no stable of staff writers, nor are we underwritten by billionaire benefactors and ad revenue from Fortune 500 corporations. Continue Reading »

15 Jun 2018 0

Poland and the Future
of Europe

by Jozef Andrew Kosc

Polish society represents an integral and democratic Catholicism, one that has resisted the anti-culture of postmodernism and neoliberal cosmopolitanism. Continue Reading »

14 Jun 2018 0

Our Mission Against Despair

by Ramona Tausz

“The work of dying well,” wrote Richard John Neuhaus, “is, in largest part, the work of living well.” Continue Reading »

13 Jun 2018 0

Freedom and First Things

by R. R. Reno

First Things exists to liberate modern men and women of faith from bondage to secular falsehoods. Continue Reading »

13 Jun 2018 0

After the Irish Debacle

by George Weigel

With Ireland having joined the Gadarene rush into legalizing the dictatorship of relativism, what next? Continue Reading »

13 Jun 2018 0

Dreams of Progress Meet
Ethnic Cleansing

by Dan Hitchens

Having once put such hopes in Burma, the world has lost interest. Continue Reading »

12 Jun 2018 0

The Man Who Stole the World

by John Waters

Bowie was a canary in the coal mine of post-1960s culture, plumbing its depths and soaring above almost everyone else. Continue Reading »

12 Jun 2018 0

Solzhenitsyn’s Prophecy

by Robert P. George

What Solzhenitsyn faulted America (and the West more generally) for was its abandonment of its own moral and, especially, spiritual ideals and identity. Continue Reading »

11 Jun 2018 0

Monkeying with Monogamy

by Hal Boyd

Looking to bonobos as co-architects of modern systems of morality is a troubling trend. Continue Reading »

8 Jun 2018 0