Foreign Affairs
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How Digital Youth Became Unhappy—and Dangerous—Adults
The following is excerpted and adapted from The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous…
How We Pray
Thanks to Karen Swallow Prior, I recently learned of a book by Christopher Stokes, Romantic Prayer: Reinventing the…
Encanto and the Benedict Option
Encanto, the newest Disney animated musical, was released as Omicron spiked and many families hunkered down for…
A Politics of Home
As Ortega y Gasset pointed out in Revolt of the Masses (1929), when people lose all trust…
Why Preaching Is Central to Priesthood
The following is based on remarks given at the Eighth Day Institute’s banquet commemorating the life and…
Christmas at the Top of the World
Shortly before Christmas, I received a phone call from the office of the Air Force Chief of…
A Rallying Point
I first came across First Things at a busy airport newsstand. I was looking for something to alleviate…
The Politics of Scapegoating
The Dying Citizen:How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of Americaby victor davis hansonbasic…
Alexander Riley on Thanksgiving and Civil Religion
In a special holiday episode, editor R. R. Reno is joined by contributing editor Mark Bauerlein and…
Too Blind to Be Martyred
As age catches up with me, my eyes aren’t functioning quite the way I’d like them to.…
Lament for the Nations
Multiculturalism in Canada:Constructing a Model Multiculture with Multicultural Valuesby hugh donald forbes palgrave macmillan, 317 pages, $59.99…
Thirty Years of Poland
It was a two-week whirlwind that changed my life forever, that first visit of mine to Poland…
No SAT, No ACT, No Problem?
The University of California recently dropped the SAT and ACT requirement from the applicant packet. It’s no…
Atheists Against Antiracism
The Elect:Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive Americaby john mcwhorter substack, $5/month Cynical…
What Happens in Germany, Revisited
Writing on the quincentennial of the Reformation and its parallels with emerging problems in the twenty-first-century German…
