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Why Can’t Conservatives Create Art?
Modern conservatives recognize their duty to reverse the devastation wrought by nearly a century of progressive cultural…
A Fully Human Approach to Finance
A conservative after action report on the struggle against woke corporations might highlight banks abandoning net zero…
Combating Vice
In my lifetime, American society has been transformed by widespread accommodation of vice. Marijuana has been legalized…
Announcing Portico: A New Literary Quarterly
First Things is pleased to announce the publication of its new print literary quarterly, Portico, starting in…
Lou Holtz and Our Lady on the Dome
Lou Holtz hated to lose at football. Texas A&M’s 35–10 victory over his Notre Dame team in…
The Countryman–Foreigner Distinction (ft. Matthew Crawford)
In this episode, Matthew B. Crawford joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about…
James Talarico’s Backward Christianity
James Talarico wants to “reclaim Christianity for the left.” That’s the title of the New York Times…
Just War Theory and Epic Fury
The machines of war have sprung into action once again in the Middle East. Bombs are falling…
How Secularization Happens
Way back in the day, when Elon Musk stalked the halls of the federal bureaucracy swinging his…
A Landmark Lawsuit, But Let’s Not Cheer Too Soon
Last month, a twenty-two-year-old woman named Fox Varian won a lawsuit against her prior doctors who coaxed…
Murder in Lyon
Quentin Deranque was twenty-three years old and a student in mathematics at the University of Lyon, France.…
The Roots of the Trans Violence Epidemic
Jesse Van Rootselaar and Robert Dorgan, two men pretending to be women, killed ten people in separate…
Playing God, Becoming Nothing
This past week, I read three things that offered a glimpse of how empty the modern notion…
Remembering Angelo Gugel
Those who remember the epic pontificate of St. John Paul II may recall a tall, handsome layman…
The Porn Supremacy
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto, wrote Terence. “I am human, nothing that is human…
