Arts & Letters
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Rehumanizing the Humanities
I have to admit to a tendency for my eyes to glaze over when people talk about…
The Fall of the American College
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. David R. Barnhizer joins…
Winners of the Inaugural First Things Poetry Prize
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the inaugural First Things Poetry Prize is Josiah…
Hagar and Ishmael as Main Characters
A number of scholars say Genesis 16, the story of Hagar and Ishmael, is the center of…
God and the Rock Climber
I’m slotting a small metal chock behind a rock flake. I reach down to pull up the…
Education in a Pluralist Country
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Ashley Rogers Berner joins…
Arabic, A Christian Language
To whom does a language belong? One might think it the possession of all who speak it.…
Briefly Noted — 9/24
Viri Dignitatem: Personhood, Masculinity and Fatherhood in the Thought of John Paul IIby david h. delaneyemmaus academic,…
“Uncivilized” Catholic Ireland
Neil Jordan is Ireland’s greatest and most successful film director. His 1992 movie The Crying Game was…
“Reminders” About Ukraine
Samuel Johnson, that great coiner of aphorisms, averred that “People need to be reminded more often than…
Read the Bible, Understand America
Many years ago, while I was in graduate school, a teacher leading a discussion of Walt Whitman’s…
Restoring Sexual Sanity
Ours is an age of sexual insanity. Men compete in women’s sports, male nurses share dressing rooms…
Is the Republican Party Becoming Pro-Choice?
The Republican National Committee proposed its 2024 GOP party platform in Milwaukee on July 8, and for…
A Pro-Life Woman for President
Terrisa Bukovinac will not be elected president in 2024. If you did not know that she was…
Educated Liberals Have a Biden Problem
Back in 2015, when Donald Trump’s candidacy started to look serious, my liberal friends and colleagues had…
