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Still Life, Still Sacred
Renaissance painters would use life-sized wooden dolls called manichini to study how drapery folds on the human…
Letters
I am writing not to address any particular article, but rather to register my concern about the…
While We’re At It
Propaganda: misleading and biased portrayal of facts, often used to inculcate and reinforce an ideology or political…
Briefly Noted
In our world of social media influencers, we are just a click away from seeing twentieth-century social…
The Mystery of Family
This week, my wife, Wendy, our daughter Katy, and I have had delightful company. On July 25,…
Letters
Joshua T. Katz’s (“Pure Episcopalianism,” May 2025) reason for a theologically conservative person joining a theologically liberal…
The Revival of Patristics
On May 25, 1990, the renowned patristics scholar Charles Kannengiesser, S.J., delivered a lecture at the annual…
The Enduring Legacy of the Spanish Mystics
Last autumn, I spent a few days at my family’s coastal country house in northwestern Spain. The…
The trouble with blogging …
The trouble with blogging, RJN, is narrative structure. Or maybe voice. Or maybe diction. Or maybe syntax.…
The Bible Throughout the Ages
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Bruce Gordon joins in…
Events Roundup—1.10.25
First Things Events Neuhaus Lecture with Patrick Deneen: “We Are All Postliberals Now”Thursday, February 13Sarasota, Florida First Things…
The Reading Debate Is Over
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Robert Pondiscio joins in…
A Journal of Timeless Insight
I first discovered First Things in my college library’s collection of back issues (below FEMS Microbes, above Foreign…
How Civilization Became Christian
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Mike Aquilina joins in to…
Christianity and Italian Politics
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn…
