Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Wendell Berry Goes to School
Wendell Berry and Higher Education:Cultivating Virtues of Placeby jack r. baker and jeffrey bilbrouniversity press of kentucky,…
Sentiment Without Sentimentality
A Carnival of Losses:Notes Nearing Ninetyby donald hallhoughton mifflin harcourt, 224 pages, $25 Even in antiquity, some…
Art Rethought
I’m writing next to a stack of books, atop which is one of the most contrarian and…
Not-So-Old Mars
In 2013, Bantam published an anthology of new stories entitled Old Mars, edited by George R. R.…
Patterns of Piety
In this series, the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors. Ramona TauszAssistant Editor Vittoria…
Sex, Fear, and Idolatry
Moral Combat:How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politicsby r. marie griffithbasic books, 416 pages, $32 Ever…
Medieval Studies and White Supremacy
Read properly, medieval history is about the divine comedy of Christianity—and about the rise of its great…
The Job of Ultimate Observer
The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)by errol morrisuniversity of chicago press, 192 pages, $30 Suppose that…
Callistus I
Tertullian tore his dalmatic.Hippolytus had a cow.Both became schismaticwhen Callistus stood the prow. He had a heart…
A Caveat on the Great Tom Wolfe
When the great Tom Wolfe died on May 14—he of the white suits, the spats, and the…
Vacationing with Samuel Johnson
It is summer, and vacation is on our minds—either memories of vacations past, or plans for vacations…
Why We Need Loome Theological Booksellers
It’s not typical to stumble into a small-town bookstore and be greeted by the sounds of Gregorian…
Common Prayer, or Predictable Politics?
As Western society continues its relentless purge of the pre-political, the body count keeps mounting. Yesterday’s harmless…
Giving Your Testimony
The national consensus seems to be that more is better. Hamburgers? Make them gargantuan, to the point…
Staircase Over the Void
Thinking Without a Banister sounds like a freethinker’s slogan, a refusal of the supports of authority, tradition,…
