Foreign Affairs
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Onward!
The First Things mid-year campaign was a great success. Thanks to the generous support of hundreds of…
The Deadly “Quality of Life” Ethic
Something evil happened recently in Austin. Michael Hickson, a forty-six-year-old African-American man with quadriplegia and a serious…
Of Statues and Symbolic Murder
In our culture, we have gotten so used to the idea that “iconoclasm” is a good and…
An Encounter With My Past
Most of my memory of my teenage years is firmly locked and sealed. Sometimes a long-forgotten smell,…
A Protestant Appreciation of Pope John Paul II
During the Christmas season of 1999, while living in Russia, I read George Weigel’s extraordinary biography of…
Defend Us From Ideology
Some object that referencing “the common good” is vague—that it is a way of hiding political judgments…
Is There a Catholic Vote?
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Matthew Bunson…
Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 24
Tuesday. The bright morning sunshine contrasts sharply with yesterday’s cold and sleet. We’re starting our second day…
Say “No” to Death’s Dominion
At the press conference on Friday announcing the New York shutdown, Governor Andrew Cuomo said, “I want…
Events Roundup—2.13.20
New York, New York Do Bad Catholics Make for Good Fiction?Tuesday, February 18Join the Morningside Institute for…
The World Will Whimper
Catholic Ireland has fallen. Some vague, residual piety may stay the hand of the Irish from completely…
God Is True
Let God be found true, though every man be found a liar,” Paul writes (Rom. 3:4). Paul’s…
The Test for the Tories
For a short introduction to the strangeness of Toryism in 2019, start with a blog post published earlier this…
Boris and a New Tory Democracy
At long last, the logjam in Britain’s Parliament has been broken. Though many called it a risk,…
Boris: The New Blair
Here is one way to try to understand Britain’s very odd general election, in which a nominally…
