Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Home, Not Freedom
I’m a proponent of academic freedom. But what we need today is a home and an inheritance,…
An Empty Parliament
My nastier, more vindictive side rather hopes that it will take so long to renovate the British…
Prepping for an Amish Apocalypse
A fairly popular contemporary view of the apocalypse envisions it as a sudden and complete shutdown of…
A Memoir I Never Expected to Write
When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning, was published…
Such a Wreckage
John BradburneThe Vagabond of GodBy Didier RanceDarton, Longman & Todd, 504 pages, $20.77 John Bradburne’s fan club—an…
Ganging Up
As some readers of First Things may already know, Amy Wax, professor of law at the University…
The Parson and the Talmud
This is the first installment in a new biweekly series, in which the First Things junior fellows…
On Blood Moons and Babylonian Whores
The Book of Revelation contains vivid imagery, wild analogies, and rhetoric rife with end-times judgment. John’s enigmatic…
The Crowd
Enticing to the coward is the crowd:It speaks what each dares not to speak alone,And compensates for…
Befriending Geoffrey Chaucer: A Review
The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision: Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselvesby norm klassenwipf and stock,…
Opening Up the World
I am in Portsmouth, Rhode Island this weekend, attending “Being Human: Christian Perspectives on the Human Person,” an…
The Book of Revelation: A Class Lesson
during the years i taught scripture to adults— i would tell them this is my favorite book…
Sanguine
Requiescat in pace, Father Jacques HamelMartyred at the church of St. Étienne,Named for the first martyr. Before…
The War on Tenure
If you think the threats to our freedom are primarily external, you haven’t been paying attention. In…
Slouching Toward Vegas
South and West: From a Notebookby joan didionknopf, 160 pages, $21 “There is,” says Don DeLillo, “a…
