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Your House Is Not Just an Investment
It takes approximately thirty-eight seconds for Miranda Lambert to make me cry. Her 2010 country ballad “The…
Because It’s There
In Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain, the Enlightenment champion Lodovico Settembrini and the Jesuit communist Leo…
The Community Answering the College Faith-Abandonment Crisis
A 2007 Lifeway study found that 70 percent of young American adults who regularly attended a Protestant…
What JD Vance Found in the Church
In the sixth book of his Confessions, St. Augustine relates a story about an encounter he had…
An Evangelical Update to Just War Theory
The first time I heard about just war theory was in my military ethics class. As midshipmen…
Leo’s Theology of Migration
Every pope has his defining mission, a papal charism of sorts that characterizes and in time becomes…
Alan Greenspan, Chief Magician of Liberalism
Alan Greenspan died this week at the age of one hundred. Greenspan had a long time to…
Toward Ethical Populism
How should conservatism evolve in a post-Trump era? Donald Trump could well lose the House of Representatives…
The Iran Failure We Needed
Count me among those grateful that President Trump has struck a deal with the Iranian regime. Recent…
Is Britain’s Social Media Ban a Trojan Horse for Censorship?
My mother is fond of saying that children spell love T-I-M-E, by which she means they have…
The Church of Claude
In this episode, First Things senior editor Dan Hitchens joins Virginia and Germán to discuss Magnifica Humanitas.…
The Knicks Win, Mamdani Triumphs?
On Saturday night, as the final seconds ticked down on the Knicks’ improbable NBA championship run, New…
In the Land of St. Agatha
My ITA Airways flight landed near Palermo on a Sunday morning. After leaving my baggage and ten…
The World That Spielberg Made
It’s a cliché to say that Steven Spielberg played an essential role in my life, partly because…
Nigel Biggar’s Thick Red Line
The New Dark Age:Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Warsby nigel biggarpolity, 192 pages, $25 Professor Nigel…
