Arts & Letters

I just came across a 3×5 card (yes, I still routinely use that primitive technology) on which…

In a recent in-flight interview, Pope Leo mentioned that Brother Lawrence’s The Practice of the Presence of…

Surveys indicate that reading books is dropping precipitously across all age groups. This is a tragedy in…

First Things staff share their most recent autumn reading recommendations.

People can get used to most anything. Even the abyss may be rendered tolerable—or, for that matter,…

No man is an island,” John Donne declares in his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. The Ballad of…

Writing early in 1810, diplomat and scholar Georg Griesinger gave the most detailed surviving account...

In music,” writes the Italian priest Luigi Giussani, “what man pays homage to is something else, something…

If you are a regular reader, you will have noticed that the interval between the previous column…

I am so wearied by the ancient weight Of my own sins, by my bad habits’ load…

We promised Joshua that we would serve the god who brought us to this land. Of course...

Sunlight coruscates the ice and glitters, turning the chipped, green handrail to a ray of emerald only…

They intensify the courtyard’s evening chill, the dragon flutes, soaring with other woodwinds through variations...

I regret that Aaron Kheriaty’s very good analysis of the desiccated landscape of bioethics (“Zombie Bioethics,” October…

In the introduction of Jewish Roots of American Liberty, a new collection of essays and documents edited…