Arts & Letters
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Trump Brings the West to the West Wing
It’s hard to think of a sport that embodies the American spirit better than rodeo. But while…
The Art of Arguing Well
Mastering the Four Arguments:The Classical Art of Persuasive Writingby gregory roperencounter books, 192 pages, $29.99 A major…
The Qur’an’s Christians
Hollywood released quite a few movies about Jesus in the 1960s and ’70s. Not all got rave…
The Slow Death of Publishing (ft. Justin Lee)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, First Things Associate…
The Women Joining the New Right
According to “The Women Leaving the New Right,” a viral piece by Sam Adler-Bell in New York…
Living with Wittgenstein
In the autumn of 1944, Ludwig Wittgenstein noticed a young doctoral student in attendance at his lectures…
Lessons from the Eternal City
Regular First Things readers will know that one of my preoccupations is the dehumanization that grips our…
The Oscars’ Unlikely Tribute to Motherhood
On Sunday night, while accepting her Academy Award for Best Actress, Hollywood star Jessie Buckley spoke lovingly…
The Parasocial Generation
When Technoblade, a popular Minecraft streamer, announced his cancer diagnosis in August 2021, the outpouring of support…
How to Write a Russian Novel
The Prodigal of Leningradby daniel taylorparaclete press, 256 pages, $21.99 There is of course no generic “Russian…
Knausgaard’s Mephistopheles
Back in college, one of my literature professors once remarked that the first hundred pages of a…
Letters
I appreciate Liel Leibovitz’s wanting to look at the light regarding artificial intelligence...
Briefly Noted
Kevin James and Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke rarely appear side by side, even in print—the back-cover endorsements…
How Kanye Went Nazi
Last year, Kanye West—sometimes known as Ye—released a song titled “Nigga Heil Hitler.” The music video featured…
That by which we rise
That by which we riseis that by which we fall. This comes as no surprise at all.But paradox…
