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A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Last Twentieth-Century Film
About halfway through Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise’s eponymous Pete “Maverick” Mitchell has a romantic encounter with…
The Importance of “Yes”
The First Things 2022 Spring Campaign seeks to raise $600,000 by June 30. To make your contribution, visit www.firstthings.com/donate. It’s…
Uvalde, Abortion, and the Limits of Compassion
What about a 48-hour waiting period or, for someone 18 years old, parental consent? They’re willing to…
Letters
Catholic Fiction Cassandra Nelson’s “A Theology of Fiction” (April) is a welcome intervention and advance in an…
The Key to Happiness
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. J. Budziszewski joins the podcast to…
Texas Abortion Showdown
In the streets of Laredo, Texas, Congressman Henry Cuellar is fighting for his political life. Today, he…
Why Pro-Abortion Activists Desecrate Churches
Since the news broke that the Supreme Court may be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, some…
What Christopher Alexander Saw
The architect Christopher Alexander (1936–2022), who passed away last month, showed us how to reconnect to the…
The Tears of Things
Sunt lacrimae rerum,” Aeneas tells his companion Achates as they gaze at a mural of the Trojan…
J. J. Kimche on Meir Kahane
Editor R. R. Reno is joined by J. J. Kimche to talk about his article from the…
Batman Beyond Vengeance
Matt Reeves’s The Batman, the latest cinematic exploration of Gotham City’s Dark Knight, is about a Batman…
The Role of Religion in Russia’s War on Ukraine
The current conflict in Ukraine is not merely about politics; it is also a battle over religious…
Alice von Hildebrand, Woman of Valor
Those who knew Alice von Hildebrand (“Lily” to her family and friends) could be forgiven for thinking…
It Is Enough
The other day, I stumbled across a wonderful live recording of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s…
Peter Bogdanovich, the Man Who Knew Too Much
These days, the history of cinema is treated like the history of just about anything else: with…
