Arts & Letters
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Bad Art Warps Our Vision
I haven’t listened to “WAP,” the obscene song with the unprintable full title that’s topping the summer…
Rediscovering Eucharistic Amazement
In his 2003 encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church from the Eucharist), Pope St. John Paul II…
How to Reform Higher Education
Congress is deadlocked over a $1 trillion coronavirus relief bill. As our representatives hash out their differences,…
The Real Damien of Molokai
Marisol Escobar’s statue of St. Damien of Molokai has graced the statuary hall in the U.S. Capitol…
By That Heart Known
The young man in his cell Receives his guestWho all his heart should tell And…
Brave New World Revisited
H. G. Wells was a tiresome socialist, but an interesting futurist. One of the best books I…
Free Speech Prevails at Princeton
This is a time of testing for our nation. We were already in the midst of dealing…
Liars Go to Hell
Writing in the Los Angeles Times three decades ago, the author S. J. Taylor claimed that “the…
Against Doomerism
Over the last month First Things has been blessed by an outpouring of support. Many readers have…
On Comments
Dear First Things readers, We have an active community of readers who comment on our web articles. In the…
What We’ve Been Reading—June 2020
R. R. Reno Editor Eugene Vodolazkin’s first novel, Solovyov and Larionov, is his most recently translated. It’s a…
Witnessing Martyrdom
To walk south from Rome along the Via Appia is to follow in the footsteps of Saint…
A Call To Conversion
When I first watched the video of the confrontation that ended Ahmaud Arbery’s life, I did not…
The Cat Jeoffry, on Smart
For I will consider my Man Christopher.For he is shut in a box, and betimes scratchesAt the…
Homeschoolers and Ideologues
Harvard professor Elizabeth Bartholet’s attack on homeschooling is the kind of argument that would, if a few…
