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The Pell Affair: Australia Is Now on Trial
Has it occurred to anyone else debating the perverse verdict rendered against Cardinal George Pell, which convicted…
“Synodality” and the Rome Abuse Summit
Despite Pope Francis’s lecture on the subject at Synod-2015, and notwithstanding the passages on it in Synod-2018’s…
Evangelical Ruskin
2019 is the bicentennial year of John Ruskin’s birth, and he is suddenly all the rage. London’s…
Methodist Madness
Duke University, which prides itself on being an elite and cosmopolitan institution of higher learning, has suddenly…
Renewing Human Rights
When Eleanor Roosevelt and a small group of people gathered at the behest of the U.N. in…
Covington Catholic’s Failed Leaders
Shame on our Catholic and conservative leaders. Many of them joined the cyber-lynching of their own young…
Sin Aboundeth
The story of offshore finance is a familiar one. Individuals or companies want to avoid taxes, fines,…
Why I Assigned The Kingdom
Last week, a controversy erupted over a book I assigned in a five-student advanced literature seminar at…
False Counsel at Fordham
Shortly before my freshman year at Fordham University, I came out to my parents and close friends.…
Tale of Two Quarterbacks
It’s been business as usual for University of Alabama football this year. They (OK—I’ll use the fanatic…
Inside Amazon
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britainby james bloodworthatlantic, 288 pages, $19.95 What single image best sums up…
Our Most Popular Articles of 2018
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at First Things! On this final day…
Terrence Malick and the Great Thing
It looked like a perfectly ordinary premiere. At the Academy Theatre in Hollywood, the red carpet was…
The Virgin Whore and the Humorless Don
Much like oil and water, humor and liberal academia do not mix. Anyone who has spent time…
The New Cool
More than any other filmmakers, the Coen brothers have wormed their way into my everyday. The Hudsucker…
