Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Prodigal Daughter
Like many a wayward daughter of middle-class America, when I was in college I took up academic…
Unintended Consequences
To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II by george weigel basic books, 368 pages,…
A Twentieth-Century Prophet
A couple of years ago I stumbled upon a cult. Browsing in a secondhand bookshop, I picked up…
The F-Word
Fighting the Last War: Confusion, Partisanship, and Alarmism in the Literature on the Radical Right by jeffrey…
Church, State, and the Common Good
Capitalism is best understood as the modern ambition to order and value all available resources solely on…
Satan Unbound
On the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany in 2021, after churches had reopened but while…
Leo Strauss and the Closed Society
In the spring of 1941, as Hitler was laying plans for his invasion of the Soviet Union,…
Ancients and Moderns
We are no better than our ancestors. I firmly believe this, although apparently many others do not.…
Conservatives for Labor
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by jane mcalevey harpercollins, 304 pages, $16.99…
Genocide in Ukraine?
Memo to both newly elected members of Congress like J. D. Vance and incumbents like Josh Hawley…
The Source of our Gratitude
On behalf of the board, editors, and staff of First Things: Thank you to our more than…
How to Resist the New Totalitarianism
Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution:A Catholic Guideby helen m. alvarécua press, 256 pages, $24.95 In Jack…
David French and the Future of Orthodox Protestantism
In two recent articles on the Respect for Marriage Act, David French both argues that the legislation…
How One Christian School Addressed Critical Theory
More than twenty years ago, my wife and I helped found Augustine School, a classical Christian school…
The Dereliction of Europe’s Religious Buildings
In October 1943, Winston Churchill eloquently expressed the importance of architecture in a speech calling for the…
