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What is Woke Capital?
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Stephen R. Soukup joins…
COVID Com-passion
Lent is a good time to think about COVID-19. Both bring suffering. True, Christ’s passion on the…
Action Civics
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Stanley Kurtz joins the…
What We’ve Been Reading—February 2021
R. R. RenoEditor The Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady does as good a job…
Ever Ancient, Ever New
Teaching Augustine on a college campus is an especially interesting experience these days. I get to expose…
Exodus, Lent, and Becoming a True Nation
Ten years ago, I began a most extraordinary Lent by walking up the Aventine Hill to the…
Expowering the Foodies
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Theodore Gioia joins the…
Systemic Racism at Planned Parenthood
Once I saw a billboard that encouraged black women to abort their unborn babies. It read: “Black…
The Making of a Poet
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Dana Gioia joins the…
A Farewell Ballad to the Alleluia
In the traditional liturgy of the Christian West, this coming Sunday marks the beginning of a three-week…
The Wasted Potential of Wonder Woman 1984
Superheroes are aspirational figures. They’re faster and stronger than the rest of us, and although their powers…
Antifascism Without Fascism
Vague, abusive, and indiscriminate use of language is common in political discourse, and currently is more ubiquitous…
Race and Reconciliation
Race and Covenant: Recovering the Religious Roots of American Reconciliationedited by gerald r. mcdermottacton institute, 318 pages,…
The Political Power of Big Tech
The president has been de-platformed on social media. The uncensored alternative to Twitter, Parler, is being strangled…
First Things Junior Fellows Program 2021
Graduating college seniors and recent graduates are invited to apply for the First Things junior fellows program. The junior…
