American Politics
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Martyrdom in The Last Jedi
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is an excellent addition to the Star Wars canon, precisely because it…
Superheroic Testimonies
The most extraordinary image in any movie this century appears in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It…
Your First Things Community
E. B. White begins Here Is New York, his much-celebrated 1949 ode to Manhattan, by remarking upon…
Carols and the Christmas Paradox
Advent is the season of watching and waiting, but it is also, as the days draw nearer…
The Romney Disease
The pretty, decent Republicans lose. The people who look and act the way we hope for our…
The Tragedy and Scandal of Cardinal Law
Why do good people do bad things? That perennial question arises anew with the death of Cardinal…
The Roy Moore Postmortem
When Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore, the pro-life cause took a bullet but dodged a grenade. There…
The Sexual Crisis is a Crisis of Character
That our country is in a sexual crisis is obvious from the large number of prominent men…
Toward Reality-Based Conservatism
Robert T. Miller thinks I’m off my rocker for imagining that our era is one of unprecedented…
The Possibility of a Catholic Social Order
Peter Kwasniewski, a professor at Wyoming Catholic College and a frequent commentator, has recently published A Reader…
Missing the Fight on Christmas Day
As my time as an undergraduate drew to a close, I felt an overwhelming need to experience…
No God but Santa
A few days ago, one of my undergraduate students asked me, “Why do so many people believe…
The Little Eschaton
Different kinds of Christians do Christmas in their different ways, and fights naturally break out among opposing…
Sex, Scandal, and Politics
Decades ago, liberal young people would say, “Let it all hang out.” The innately conservative Peter Berger…
Our Witness to Freedom
It’s been a good year, a very good one. Subscriptions are up. We’re closing in on 30,000…
