Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Tough Year Ahead
2018 was a bad year for Catholics. 2019 is almost certainly going to be worse. Good reason,…
Another Decade of First Things
As 2019 begins, here’s a look back at the past ten years of First Things. This list,…
Melchior’s Wife
In truth, I was not born to royalty;My power came from pleasure and my smile.I used my…
Letters
Muslim Progressives Paul Rowan Brian (“Muslims in American Politics,” November) has deftly laid bare the source of…
Fear Today
More than any other philosopher, Thomas Hobbes highlighted the claim that fear serves as a foundation for…
Wonder Is Critical
I finished teaching a university course in faith and ideas a little while ago by administering individual…
Lincoln Lost, Douglas Won
Everyone on that hot, dusty August afternoon in 1858 in the square at Ottawa, Illinois, knew who…
Let’s Rebalance
On election night, Tuesday, November 6, returns came in. There were wins and losses. My blood pressure…
Conservative Democracy
The present moment is one of growing discomfort, both in America and in Europe, with the regnant…
Shame Storm
After a lifetime of impeccably correct opinions, Ian Buruma found himself on the wrong side of the…
Bishops Unbound
In Before Church and State, Andrew Willard Jones describes a time when Christendom’s lay rulers were leaders…
Grace
. . . for he will come like a rushing streamwhich the wind of the Lord drives.—Isa.…
The Winter of Love
No one who welcomed the sixties as a liberation can understand what it has been like to…
Progress and Punishment
Modern spokesmen for traditional Judaism have consistently expressed reservations about capital punishment. While the biblical texts seem…
Russian Jeremiah
Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Notre Dame, 480 pages, $35…
