Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Letters
I found Matthew Burdette’s analysis in “The Right to Be Killed” (August/September 2025) engaging. However, Burdette holds…
Briefly Noted
Our Lady of the Green Scapular charts a relay race of grace. The vision granted to Sr.…
Coleridge at Midnight
He has been one acquainted with the darkAnd cold, the walks in rain across the hills,The vagaries…
Poetry vs. AI
As the purveyors of artificial intelligence attempt to replace literature with a deluge of slop, it is…
Power Fatigue and the Soft Womanhood of Taylor Swift
Whether you are a fan or foe of Taylor Swift, you cannot deny she is a titan…
Screen-Obsessed and Isolated: New and Notable Books
As readers of First Things well know, more and more examinations of the threat of technology to…
As Long as You’re Living
I first heard Robert Munsch in second grade. Our teacher read his 1986 classic Love You Forever…
Voyages to the End of the World
Francis Bacon dreamed of abolishing disease, natural disasters, and chance itself. He also dreamed of abolishing God.
The Cambrian Implosion
A historical moment ago, it was too obvious for words, but: Life is a blessing. So to…
Where Is God in The Lord of the Rings? (ft. Douglas Estes)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Douglas Estes joins…
Contained Controversy
To describe the shifting relationship between religion and art, we must use the broad brush. Judaism and…
Finding Private Roy
By the late 1970s, when I attended public high school in rural, blue-collar Central New York, more…
B. F. Skinner Is Back
In the summer of 1942, Arthur D. Hyde, vice president in charge of research at General Mills,…
In the Stacks
The stacks referred to in the title of this column, as you may have guessed, are made…
Letters
I am writing not to address any particular article, but rather to register my concern about the…
