Sexual Revolution
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Vindication of Humanae Vitae
That Humanae Vitae and related Catholic teachings about sexual morality are laughingstocks in all the best places…
We Are the State
The news this next year will be dominated by the presidential race. That is near to inevitable.…
Sola Gratia and Mary’s Immaculate Conception
The project known as Evangelicals and Catholics Together is now in its thirteenth year following its initial…
Franz Jägerstätter: Martyr and Model
Tomorrow, on October 26, the Catholic hero Franz Jägerstätter will be beatified in Linz, Austria. Executed in…
Antonin Scalia: Not a Catholic (Judge)
On October 16, Antonin Scalia gave the keynote address at Villanova Law School’s second annual Scarpa Conference…
The November Issue of First Things Has Arrived
“Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran,” writes Alan Jacobs in the new issue…
First Things Issues (So to Speak)
A longtime subscriber has more than a decade of past issues of First Things ¯but lacks the…
God and Imaginary Numbers
Impossible, irrational, delusionary, absurd, untrustworthy, fictitious, imaginary: You can’t read much about religion today without encountering these…
Why Do the Heathen Rage?
An extended dialogue between biologist Richard Dawkins and Christian apologist Alister McGrath¯originally shot for Dawkins’ BBC documentary…
Land of Lincoln: A Review
In the elementary schools of the American Midwest, Abraham Lincoln has always enjoyed a good press. Schoolchildren…
A Criterion for Compromises
Our friends over at the New Criterion have put out a big anthology including the editors’ choice…
The Malling of Mecca
It’s big. No, I mean really BIG. And I’m not talking about the Burj Dubai , which…
How to Pray
As a Catholic growing up in the years before Vatican II, I knew very few Protestants, much…
The Aug-Sept Issue of First Things Is Online!
Another day, another dollar. Well, actually, another month, another issue of First Things . And the cost…
The Relevance of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
“Obscure” hardly begins to describe the obscurity of the German-American thinker Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888¯1973). Though never a…
