The State of Fictional Espionage

by John Wilson

David Ignatius’s The Paladin tells a compelling story that (among other things) gives the worn-out phrase “fake news” a new urgency. Continue Reading »

24 Jul 2020 0

The Rabbi Who Chose Trans Orthodoxy

by Sarah Rindner

For Yaakov Smith, a transgender person who lives and teaches in Jerusalem, Orthodoxy is a bit like the exaggerated femininity of the drag queen. Continue Reading »

24 Jul 2020 0

What We’ve Been Reading—July 2020

by Editors

Mark Bauerlein on William F. Buckley's The Unmaking of a Mayor and Veronica Clarke on Tara Isabella Burton's Social Creature. Continue Reading »

23 Jul 2020 0

Liars Go to Hell

by Francis X. Maier

At a time when lying, bullying, and violence seem to be making a comeback, the film Mr. Jones is a useful lesson in consequences. Continue Reading »

23 Jul 2020 0

The Next Pope and Vatican Diplomacy

by George Weigel

Vatican diplomacy seems to be reverting to a Casaroli-style accommodation of thuggish regimes. Continue Reading »

22 Jul 2020 0

Mrs. America’s Mistakes

by Helen Andrews

Mrs. America imagines that it can safely romanticize Schlafly’s pastel-colored suburban world because no woman today could possibly want to go back to it. Continue Reading »

22 Jul 2020 0

J. I. Packer: A Great Puritan

by Hans Boersma

Those who knew J. I. Packer had no doubt that his lifelong reading of the Puritans fertilized his heart and mind. Continue Reading »

21 Jul 2020 0

Wheat and Tares, Saints and Frauds

by Raymond J. de Souza

Good and evil are so intertwined that sometimes it is hard to recognize which is which. Continue Reading »

21 Jul 2020 0

Onward!

by R. R. Reno

The First Things mid-year campaign was a great success. Continue Reading »

21 Jul 2020 0

Back to Unalienable Rights

by Seth D. Kaplan

The report from the Commission on Unalienable Rights is a call for thought, reflection, debate—and action toward making the human rights field as relevant as it once was. Continue Reading »

20 Jul 2020 0