Law
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Hagia Sophia: Past and Future
On May 29, 1453, after two months of continuous cannon fire, the massive triple walls that had…
Why I Love Trains
One of my worst and most embarrassing failures as a journalist was my attempt to interview Harold…
A Detective and His Dog
Every novel, no matter the period, no matter the genre, no matter the author, is informed by…
SCOTUS Redefines “Sex”
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Hadley…
Roberts And Roe v. Wade
In last week’s June Medical decision, the Supreme Court overturned a Louisiana law requiring hospital admitting privileges…
The Biases of a Royal Commission
A brief dip into Latin helps us understand how preconceptions can lead to biased judgments that falsify…
Elijah Comes
Of the seven words of Jesus from the cross, none is so inscrutable as the cry of…
A Quarantine Syllabus for Teenage Boys
Okay, First Things parents. Those of you with adolescent boys at home—you need help. So do I.…
Discernment in Plague-Times
For some time, whenever I recommended Kristin Lavransdatter to friends I kept forgetting about the plague. I…
“Wittenberg” in Synodal Slow Motion
As Yale’s Carlos Eire masterfully demonstrated in Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650, there was no one…
The First Commandment of Fiction
What insults my soul,” Zadie Smith confessed last year in The New York Review of Books, “is…
China’s Second Cultural Revolution
China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–76) occupies a place high in the annals of human savagery. Mao Zedong’s purges…
The Martini Curve Revisited
Pope Francis concluded his pre-Christmas address to the Roman Curia by invoking the memory of Cardinal Carlo…
The Ecstasy of the Mob
In his review of the 1946 French film Panique, critic Bilge Ebiri observes that mob behavior is…
Leaders Who Can’t Lead
In my forty years as a student and teacher in higher education, I have seen the humanities,…
